“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing…”
In other words: a metrics query for ingress traffic by IP addresses and sorted by volume, followed by looking up the country of origin on some random IP geolocation website.
Anyone with a basic understanding of computer networking can do that. The only tracing going on there is Elon’s fingers as they try to find the ego they so desperate want to stroke.
Later on Monday, Mr Musk claimed on Fox News that IP addresses involved in the cyber attack were traced to locations “in the Ukraine area”.
A cool fact for those unaware: every packet of data that goes through the internet has a return address. If you don’t care about getting a response back, nothing stops you from lying about your return address. In fact, when being malicious, it can often be beneficial to lie about your return address.
That’s assuming the attackers intentionally tried to frame Ukraine or exclusively use Ukrainian servers for amplification. The more likely scenario is that Musk cherry-picked one of the many addresses from around the world to use as an example that supports his agenda.
The more likely scenario is that Musk is straight up lying about anything tracing back to a Ukrainian IP address because he’s manufacturing consent against Ukraine.
In other words: a metrics query for ingress traffic by IP addresses and sorted by volume, followed by looking up the country of origin on some random IP geolocation website.
Anyone with a basic understanding of computer networking can do that. The only tracing going on there is Elon’s fingers as they try to find the ego they so desperate want to stroke.
A cool fact for those unaware: every packet of data that goes through the internet has a return address. If you don’t care about getting a response back, nothing stops you from lying about your return address. In fact, when being malicious, it can often be beneficial to lie about your return address.
That’s assuming the attackers intentionally tried to frame Ukraine or exclusively use Ukrainian servers for amplification. The more likely scenario is that Musk cherry-picked one of the many addresses from around the world to use as an example that supports his agenda.
The more likely scenario is that Musk is straight up lying about anything tracing back to a Ukrainian IP address because he’s manufacturing consent against Ukraine.
Musk isn’t a liar, he’s the greatest player of Diablo evar!