| In case you needed further confirmation that the internet is not a safe place, an exploit in the Border Gateway Protocol can be used to divert internet traffic to another location. This can be done from anywhere on the internet and does not require the attacker to be within the same subnet. This was demonstrated at the DEFCON security conference in August.
While this is not a new discovery, the recent demostration helps show how unstable and insecure the core infrastructure of the |
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| internet really is. Not only are higher level applications like DNS vulnerable, but also the lower level protocols have flaws in their design that can be taken advantage of. Experts in the field are calling for changes to internet routing and have been making warnings for years. A newer secure protocol, S-BGP, is a possible solution that could be deployed, yet there are still issues that need to be worked out regarding deployment and operation.
For now however, the only solution to any privacy over the internet is to use point-to-point encryption such as a VPN tunnel. Send data over the internet without encryption and you risk compromising it. |
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