Related, non-causal event: BGP origin hijack of 1.1.1.0/24 exposed by withdrawal of routes from Cloudflare. This was not a cause of the service failure, but an unrelated issue that was suddenly visible as that prefix was withdrawn by Cloudflare.
I'm a bit uneducated here - why was the other 1.1.1.0/24 announcement previously suppressed? Did it just express a high enough cost that no one took it on compared to the CF announcement?
CF had their route covered by RPKI, which at a high level uses certs to formalize delegation of IP address space.
What caused this specific behavior is the dilemma of backwards comparability when it comes to BGP security. We area long ways off from all routes being covered by rpki, (just 56% of v4 routes according to https://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/ROV ) so invalid routes tend to be treated as less preferred, not rejected by BGP speakers that support RPKI.
>According to iVerify, once activated, the application downloads a configuration file via an insecure connection, which can result in system-level code being executed. The configuration file is retrieved from a domain hosted by AWS over unsecured HTTP, which leaves the configuration and the device vulnerable to malicious code, spyware and data wiping.
>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
The idea of "free beer" is if I'm giving away free beer at my establishment during an event, there are restrictions around that free beer. I'm not gonna fill up a tanker truck for you, I'm gonna kick you out if you start trying to resell it, I'm gonna cut you off it you've had too much, you can't get any if you're under age, etc, etc, etc.
It's free, but you can't do anything you want with it. Really it's free to drink on my terms - and that's certainly "free", but it's not "freedom" (as in free speech).
The recipe for soda is also open source - anybody can make their own carbonated soft drink. But I think if someone offered you "free soda" it would be pretty clear that they are offering you a specific soda whose recipe you almost certainly don't know, not the umbrella concept of "soda".
"Free soda" and "free beer" are analogous, if that helps.
Or, since it seems to need explaining, the point is that "beer" is not one thing with one recipe and if somebody offers you "free beer" it is pretty obviously a specific kind and batch of beer.
Do you have any you would recommend? I'll love you for a link, and like you for a brand name. Not being a dick here, I'm genuinely looking for one that I don't have to lose sleep over installing.
