From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XFXNb-00071o-3k for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:45:55 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([192.3.11.21]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1XFXNY-0006Dy-HY for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:45:55 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:5:265:be5f:f4ff:febf:4f76]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3757B1080209; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:36:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Luke Dashjr To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:45:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.15.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E463 A93F 5F31 17EE DE6C 7316 BD02 9424 21F4 889F X-PGP-Key-ID: BD02942421F4889F X-PGP-Keyserver: hkp://pgp.mit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201408072345.45363.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.7 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1XFXNY-0006Dy-HY Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:45:55 -0000 On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:02:21 PM Pedro Worcel wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if you guys have come across this article: > > http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/ > > The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the BGP protocol to be in a position > where they can intercept the miner traffic. The concerning point is that > they seem to be having some degree of success in their endeavour and > earning profits from it. > > I do not understand the impact of this (I don't know much about BGP, the > mining protocol nor anything else, really), but I thought it might be worth > putting it up here. This is old news; both BFGMiner and Eloipool were hardened against it a long time ago (although no Bitcoin pools have deployed it so far). I'm not aware of any actual case of it being used against Bitcoin, though - the target has always been scamcoins.