Carrier Pigeons Bringing Contraband into Prisons

In Brazil.

I think this is the first security vulnerability found in RFC 1149: “Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.” Deep packet inspection seems to be the only way to prevent this attack, although adequate fencing will prevent the protocol from running in the first place.

Posted on June 27, 2008 at 6:32 AM • 45 Comments