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I went to a talk called "stealing the internet" - it...
Haven't read/seen the presentation but hasn't this been known to be

possible for a while now? ;)
On 8/17/08, Nick Bender  wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Johan Beisser  wrote:

>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Travers Buda

>> wrote:

>>

>>> Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon?

>>

>> Does it have to be one or the other?

>

> I went to a talk called "stealing the internet" - it was added the last day.

>

> Using BGP the presenters were able to hijack the defcon /24 ip range and

> route it to their server in New York. Normally that's the end of it  - just

> another DOS.

>

> The new thing was that they were able to create a path back to the defcon

> network over a single route so they could actually return packets. They did

> the hijack at noon and at the end of the 4pm-5pm talk they showed a 75 gb

> and growing capture file.

>

> -N