[AusNOG] Internet Kill Switch???

[Daniel Hood]

Just flood BGP with a stupidly long AS path such as.

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Its brought down the internet successfully enough times before. While
some carriers routers would be able to handle a request like this,
most older routers that don't have the resources to comprehend a route
like this would either reboot or just crash and brick. It would
successfully bring down a majority of the internet.

Especially when america is so afraid of attacks coming from China,
Pakistan, Iran and the likes. They are biggest culprits of having old
not-properly-configured gear.

Daniel

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Glenn Hocking <glenn at woosaw.com> wrote:
>> Oh no. Hope that Conroy does not see this, he'll want one too :-(
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/obama-internet-kill-switch-
>> proposed-20100618-yln6.html
>
> Given there are global or almost-global carriers that are not entirely
> US owned, I can't imagine they'd allow such a risk (if legislated) to
> exist to their business.
>
> Wouldn't they then look for an economical way to have circuits bypass the US?
>
> -a
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