04-17-2020 , 10:09 PM
Quote: BGP is like a GPS mapping service for the internet, enabling ISPs to automatically choose what route data should take
“Is BGP Safe Yet” is a new site that names and shames internet service providers that don't tend to their routing.
FOR MORE THAN an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn't a hack or a bug.
It was problems with the internet data routing standard known as the Border Gateway Protocol, which had allowed significant amounts of web traffic to take an unexpected detour through a Russian telecom. For Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, it was the last straw.
BGP disruptions happen frequently, generally by accident. But BGP can also be hijacked for large-scale spying, data interception, or as a sort of denial of service attack.
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https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-bgp-routing-safe-yet/