[126274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Mon May 10 17:39:54 2010
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:39:13 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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/
