[126287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bosworth)
Mon May 10 20:43:55 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BE87D01.7010107@mompl.net>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:43:11 -0500
From: Paul Bosworth <pbosworth@gmail.com>
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm right there with you. I'm pretty sure the Internet would have crashed
and burned long ago from human error if this was the case. People typically
unintentionally bungle things worse than when they mean to.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
> 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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Paul H Bosworth
GSEC, GCFW, GCIH
CCNP, CCIP, CCDP
