<div dir="ltr">Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more, especially maliciously.<div><br></div><div>But then again I guess its a case of mutually assured destruction. Were some government to seriously mess with it long-term, the whole internet would fall apart quite rapidly, or at least get partitioned. And if a company tried it, they'd hear the black helicopters quicker than Kim Dotcom did.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Roland, I'd be interested to know if Arbor has seen 'DDoS' via BGP 'hacks' like this, certainly it is quite easy to divert hundreds of Gbit of traffic, perhaps... :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Dobbins, Roland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net" target="_blank">rdobbins@arbor.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Heinz N <<a href="mailto:ausnog@equisoft.com.au">ausnog@equisoft.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> First they attack SMTP then DNS, now BGP.<br>
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</div>BGP hijacking has been going on for many years (as have DNS and SMTP attacks), it isn't new at all.<br>
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