• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        16 天前

        that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage

        • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          16 天前

          Valid. I checked again, and:

          Known risks to the protocol include:

          • Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

          So I guess that’s what’s happening here