The Pirate Bay have released a press release that they are now hosted out of North Korea: "The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. ....This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high...... ...We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information......." http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/04/after-being-cut-from-norway-the-pirate-bay-r... https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229 But there is a lot of debate on Reddit that they are not really in North Korea and just doing some BGP trickery: "Anyone can hijack an AS number and not cause any issues for the real user b In this case The Pirate Bay set up a Sat dish in Phenom Penh, Cambodia b Intelsat gives them a BGP session there. The peer net for BGP handoff is 175.45.177.217/30, .216 is Intelsats side and .217 is The Pirate Baybs. One can use ANY IP they wish for these handoffs, internal, their own, b hijackedb b In this case The Pirate Bay b hijackedb 2 IPs from the North Korean network which does not matter for them as this is only acessible from their side, not from the internet. TBP then injected AS131279 as peer in the upstream table b so it does not look like this: AS22351 b AS51040 But instead: AS22351 b AS131279 b AS51040 This is possible because either Intelsat does not filter BGP announcements (unlikely) or TBP wrote a fake LOA for this AS (likely). Now as we traceroute the TBP IP we see the /30 subnet used for the handoff in Phenom Penh, which is why TPB says it is in North Korea b The ICMP (ping) reply from the IP makes it seem legit but does actually come from and entirely different network (aka the real Star-KP network). (Theres some more but i spare you that as it is pretty technological b for example that AS131279 does not hand over AS51040 routes to AS4737)." http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/19nb00/after_being_cut_from_norw... Anybody have an input on this and able to confirm or deny the claims of BGP Hijacking? -- BaconZombie LOAD "*",8,1 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE