Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

[Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>]

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.

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