Why is securing BGP just so damn hard?
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Stories of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing mishaps span the entire thirty-year period that we`ve been using BGP to glue the Internet together. We`ve experienced all kinds of route leaks from a few routes to a few thousand or more. We`ve seen route hijacks that pass by essentially unnoticed, and we`ve seen others that get quoted for the ensuing decade or longer! There are ghost routes and gratuitous withdrawals. From time to time we see efforts to craft BGP packets of death and efforts to disrupt BGP sessions through the injection of spoofed TCP resets. After some 30 years of running BGP, it would be good to believe that we`ve learned from this rich set of accumulated experience, and we...