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It's so obvious what's he doing. He will use this as pretext to shutoff StartLink.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"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.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tracing...

This guy never actually grew up, did he?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As always, this quote remains relevant:

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia :D

[–] Leastdoctor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Today I learned...

Thank you.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago

What a ~~pretext~~ convenient coincidence.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 24 points 2 days ago

musk is fast catching up to trump for the title of "least credible person in the world."

[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

if the attack actually came through star link he would have the evidence. but we know this is a lie, there's little chance that he could fully find the source so quickly and accurately

[–] martin4598@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

No way it's actually Ukraine. Musk is likely just lying.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He seems like he is a Russian asset at this point as well...

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 days ago

Oh no, did we lose anything important?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not surprised this dude is bad at manufacturing consent. Consent isn't something he understands very well.