[126296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue May 11 01:43:33 2010
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:42:41 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BE87D01.7010107@mompl.net>
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
>>
>> 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
