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Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon May 10 02:38:09 2010

Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:37:29 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <308599F2-201F-4C34-862B-4E4B6BF4C875@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Internet.html

embarrassing but pretty much correct.  a reporter did their homework.
if i knew who it was, i would add them to my very small "willing to talk
to" list.

> It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I
> agree about the "simplicity of the routing system"....

"The fact that very good computer scientists are studying the internet
as a behavioral phenomonon should scare the hell out of us."
-- me, some years ago

randy


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