# The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

<https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/the-internet-is-held-together-with-spit-baling-wire/>

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- Saved: November 27, 2021 (2021-11-27T18:19:57Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

It is incredible that MAIL-FROM was **ever** considered a valid means of authenticating a message between the operators running the backbones connecting the internet. It is an interesting problem, how do the core network backbone operators share the running configuration of the Internet and affect changes without opening up compromise vectors.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT206: Weekly Thing #206 / Omicron, Overengineering, Endaoment](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/206/), Notable

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