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Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking??
From: Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
So that _really_ begs the question... Why did Circle Internet and (apparently) Level3's customer, BANDCON, blindly accept _any_ sort of assertion that the crook who hijacked these two /16s had the right to use them?
What makes you think it was blind? The standard industry practice is to ask someone requesting to announce a route for a letter on the owner's letter head authorizing the announcement. Is it really that hard to invent some letterhead and sign a letter?
It's probably one of the easiest to circumvent "security" procedures ever.Frankly it's a giant waste of time and does nothing other than frustrate legitimate work.
-- Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNRoss ICQ: 2269442 Skype: brandonross Yahoo: BrandonNRoss
Current thread:
- HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Ronald F. Guilmette (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Bill Woodcock (Mar 30)
- RE: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Jim Gonzalez (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Ronald F. Guilmette (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Ronald F. Guilmette (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Brandon Ross (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Ross Harvey (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Brandon Ross (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Owen DeLong (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Paul Ferguson (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Owen DeLong (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Christopher Morrow (Mar 31)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Christopher Morrow (Mar 31)
- RE: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Jim Gonzalez (Mar 30)
- Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking?? Bill Woodcock (Mar 30)