Fake BGP announcements, and/or fake internal ip addressing. Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:30 PM, Olivier Tesquet <[email protected]> wrote: 2013/3/5 Amin Sabeti <[email protected]> > See the update 3: > http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/05/evidence-the-pirate-bay-move-to-north-korea-was-a-prank-in-understandable-terms/ > Thanks Amin, I hadn't see it. My question would duplicate Falkvinge's one : How do you fake a traceroute to this degree ? And why now ? > > > On 5 March 2013 10:12, Olivier Tesquet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Libtechers, >> >> I was wondering what your thoughts were on this (so far a) rumor that The >> Pirate Bay has moved its servers to Democratic Peoples Republic of North >> Korea. It was first evoked by Rick Falkvinge yesterday, followed by a TPB >> statement ironically signed "Kim Jung-Bay", while the logo was revamped : >> >> >> http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/04/after-being-cut-from-norway-the-pirate-bay-returns-from-north-korea/ >> https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229 >> >> Now, unsurprisingly, some people are claiming it's a well executed fake >> using a BGP stunt, even though a traceroute actually lead to North Korea >> sole ISP, Star-KP : >> >> https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake >> >> So far, I can't really tell what's the idea behind such a move, except >> the fact it's hard to assess (does North Korea even have broadband in >> sufficient proportions to host TPB ? I doubt so). The TPB as a history in >> cat-and-mouse game, as their shift from a .com to a .se domain name a few >> days after the MegaUpload raid proved. But now ? When DPRK meets the >> Internet, I can't help but thinking about 4chan pranks and Eric Schmidt >> looking at Kim Jong-Un looking at things. >> >> wdyt ? >> >> -- >> Olivier Tesquet >> Reporter Médias/Net @ Télérama >> +33 (0)6 47 82 05 71 >> +33 (0)1 55 30 56 51 >> twitter.com/oliviertesquet >> >> >> >> -- >> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >> emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Olivier Tesquet Reporter Médias/Net @ Télérama +33 (0)6 47 82 05 71 +33 (0)1 55 30 56 51 twitter.com/oliviertesquet GPG Public Key<http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xA5265CCCA2D31A5F> Send me information on my Privacy Box <https://privacybox.de/cgi-bin/tram_msg.pl?lang=fr&sus=nestorburma> -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
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