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by toomuchtodo 3917 days ago
Fundamental flaw in how BGP was designed from the old days. Give me a transit or peering connection where filters aren't in place, and you can announce anyone's IP blocks with their AS (SS7 is very similar, as it was built for a closed telcom ecosystem where all participants were trusted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY).

There are efforts to move to a more secure version of BGP, but that'll be done around the same time the transition to IPv6 is complete.