So this sounds alarming, right? > There is another dangerous possibility lurking in BGP, what Madory calls the “dystopian possibility” that some network — perh

So this sounds alarming, right? > There is another dangerous possibility lurking in BGP, what Madory calls the “dystopian possibility” that some network — perhaps in a moment when international hostilities are spilling into cyberspace — intentionally claims control of sections of the Internet that don’t belong to it. > Such a move would confuse the world’s routers, which would have to choose between rival claims to the same blocks of Internet addresses. The overall network, unable to discern truth amid competing claims, could fracture into rival fiefdoms. But hey, the US already does this, for some FBI website seizures. And for black-holing "bad" sites.