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Old 15th February 2011
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Default Boffins devise 'cyberweapon' to take down internet ; BGP will tear us apart

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02...h_cyberweapon/

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University Boffins say they've devised a way to take down the internet by turning core parts of its routing protocol against itself.
BTW: BGP : Border Gate Protocol
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It's always nice to know that somebody could engineer a button to take down the entire universe as we know it >_>.
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