Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 2/2/12 21:59 , Randy Bush wrote:
> > > The suits won, and many nerds either threw in with them or revealed
> > > their affinity for the easy life and gave up. Being principled and
> > > turning away dirty money or exercising the "fire the customer" clause
> > > tends to be disliked by corporate officers.
> > bottom line -- the only way to fix this problem is for bad behavior to
> > become more expensive than good behavior. it's the only thing the
> > pointy hairs will understand.
>
> i just love to read geeks discussing legal and financial solutions.
> just about as educational as watching lawyers and cfos discussing
> engineering.
>
> seeing as we are purportedly engineers, perhaps we could discuss a
> technical engineering approach to prefix misorigination?

I hear there's this thing called RPKI that does origin validation, it's
a shame that TCP MD5 shared secrets are already considered to hard to
manage in this community.

> randy