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BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

Subject: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
From: jeroen at mompl.net (Jeroen van Aart)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:39:13 -0700
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Steven Bellovin wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html
> 
> It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I agree about the "simplicity of the routing system"....

I am very skeptical whenever I see claims of this nature "If I do X I 
can bring down large global system Y in a matter of minutes/hours" where 
X involves something reasonably simple any single person with some skill 
could do.

-- 
http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

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  - From: randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)

References:
- BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
  - From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)

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