
Show Notes
Wes is joined by special guest Jim Salter to discuss Google's recent BGP outage and the future of HTTP.
Plus the latest router botnet, why you should never go full UPnP, and the benefits of building your own home router. Special Guest: Jim Salter. Links: Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China — Google lost control of several million of its IP addresses for more than an hour on Monday in an event that intermittently made its search and other services unavailable to many users.
Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'
RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing
HTTP/3 — The protocol that's been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3.
HTTP/3: Come for the speed, stay for the security
The Road to QUIC
Botnet pwns 100,000 routers using ancient security flaw — Researchers have stumbled on another large botnet that’s been quietly hijacking home routers while nobody was paying attention
BCMPUPnP_Hunter: A 100k Botnet Turns Home Routers to Email Spammers
From Zero to ZeroDay Journey: Router Hacking
The Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch
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