Episode 18: Erebus Attacks
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
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Is This Like Faking the Internet?
The internet consists of building blocks, and those are called autonomous systems. An autonomous system could be an internet provider, could be Google. Usually it's one legal entity, and it owns a whole bunch of IP addresses. And when you send something from one place on the internet to another places on the internet, the package goes from one autonomous system to the next autonomous system. So the first autonomous system in line can actually fake everything behind it. Right? Because Amazon has a lot of them, but you're not really there yet - that's what the faking the internet comes in.
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