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This worries me. Am I right in saying a malicious party could actually take down the internet with this?
by highace 14y ago
This worries me. Am I right in saying a malicious party could actually take down the internet with this?
- sanxiyn 14y agoMalicious party? It already happened by accident. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/02/longer-is-not-better.shtml http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/02/longer-is-not-better.sht...
- davej 14y agoThey would have to be a 'trusted' malicious party. But in theory, yes. I'm sure it would be reverted very quickly though.
- sp332 14y agoYes, but you'd have to con a lot of big players into trusting your BGP routes first. And the effect would only last as long as it took to change some configurations and write you back out of the internet.