BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

[randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)]

>> 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.

except we have a history of it happening