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Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Sep 12 13:59:57 2016

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:59:48 +0200
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* Mel Beckman:

> If we can't police ourselves, someone we don't like will do it for us. 

That hasn't happened with with IP spoofing, has it?  As far as I
understand it, it is still a major contributing factor in
denial-of-service attacks.  Self-regulation has been mostly
unsuccessful, and yet nothing has happened on the political level.

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