begin quoting kelsey hudson as of Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:29:02AM -0700: [snip] > Here's one. In networking we often peer with other core routers using > BGPv4 (border gateway protocol), OSPF (open shortest path first), and > IGRP (interior gateway routing protocol), to distribute routing tables > back and forth. All it takes is one malicious (or unsecured) customer to > inject some "bad" routes into those tables and have them propagate out > to the rest of the internet (it only takes a few minutes) and you could > effectively bring the internet to its knees. I have the power to do it > from work -- not that I'd actually do it (can you imagine the > lawsuits?), but it wouldn't be that difficult. all it'd take is to find > the subnets a few of the most core routers are on, and advertize that as > a push route through BGP. boom, you've just taken down your ISP.
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