On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
So that _really_ begs the question... Why did Circle Internet and (apparently)
Level3's customer, BANDCON, blindly accept _any_ sort of assertion that the
crook who hijacked these two /16s had the right to use them?
What makes you think it was blind? The standard industry practice is to
ask someone requesting to announce a route for a letter on the owner's
letter head authorizing the announcement. Is it really that hard to
invent some letterhead and sign a letter?
It's probably one of the easiest to circumvent "security" procedures ever.
Frankly it's a giant waste of time and does nothing other than frustrate
legitimate work.
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