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I am amazed about the hilarious design and concept. Horrified that this was done with links running production data.

• progval 8y ago
  No experiment is worth doing without your production system at stake
  • mey 8y ago
    Typically move fast and break things refers to improving a product, not the next move in battleship.
    • iDemonix 8y ago
      I think it's open to interpretation.
    • jauer 8y ago
      You don't actually know if something works until you've tested in prod. Adding some community tags to BGP announcements is really trivial and mostly harmless.
• tscs37 8y ago
  Considering the modern role of BGP it's probably a bit like playing battleship on the controls of two nuclear power plants using the power grid.
  • d0mine 8y ago
    As I understand it, generator turbines are synchronized in a region and therefore one can exchange info by modulating the frequency (on the opposite side, on a small scale, there is probably a product on the consumer side: network-over-a-power-plug). https://preview.entsoe.eu/news/2018/03/06/press-release-continuing-frequency-deviation-in-the-continental-european-power-system-originating-in-serbia-kosovo-political-solution-urgently-needed-in-addition-to-technical/ https://preview.entsoe.eu/news/2018/03/06/press-release-cont... https://computer.howstuffworks.com/power-network.htm https://computer.howstuffworks.com/power-network.htm
• ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  Indeed. The responsible way to do this would've been using either off-network routers with non-real AS numbers, or even virtual ones in something like Cisco Packet Tracer.
• q3k 8y ago
  If your production systems break when some third-party plays battleship on them, you might want to invest in better production systems.