I don't suspect we'd need a central authority for that. I'm sure it only enough for you traffic to pass with anyones national boundry to be 'at risk' of such things
-jim Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:52:34 To: <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it? On 5/10/2010 15:31, Anton Kapela wrote: > > On May 9, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > >> http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=2327 > > "Just how fragile is the internet?" > > Rhetoric, much? > > Interestingly, the article misses interception and other non-outage > potentials due to (sub) prefix hijacking. At the risk of seeming to be a conspiracy theorist, I am worried that with "Central Authority" we might not have "hijacking" but "rerouting for inspection and correction". -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
