security

it looks like the fact that folks pass communities around like the common cold is a bulb that is starting to light. oft discussed over beers, but little research in this space. here’s a first run at this research. must read paper: BGP communities: even more worms in the routing can update (20190323) it looks like one of the authors has written a few blog posts on the topic as well for the RIPE folks....

this little gem has been sitting in my reading queue for a little while. it’s an interesting variant of the, “what would you do if you found someone’s wallet?” scenario. with everything sitting on your smart phone, you wonder why more folks don’t lean on the built in protections to secure their data. obviously, the punch line to the story is the notion that we simply can’t trust other people not to root around in our found personal stuff....