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Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon May 10 16:53:00 2010

Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:52:34 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <547278A6-15D7-4CC0-A043-17E8288401B6@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 5/10/2010 15:31, Anton Kapela wrote:
> 
> On May 9, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> 
>> http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=2327
> 
> "Just how fragile is the internet?"
> 
> Rhetoric, much?
> 
> Interestingly, the article misses interception and other non-outage
> potentials due to (sub) prefix hijacking.

At the risk of seeming to be a conspiracy theorist, I am worried that
with "Central Authority" we might not have "hijacking" but "rerouting
for inspection and correction".

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