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by navanchauhan 1883 days ago
This reminds me of when YouTube was down for a lot of the world when Pakistan banned YouTube and one of the country's telecom company forgot to switch off their BGP route (if that is what the correct terminology would be).[0] Half as Interesting made a nice YouTube video about it.[1]

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offli...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gnRs33NOk
1 comments
john37386 1883 days ago
This is less likely to happen these days as BGP routes are now validated through an open registry like RPKI https://www.arin.net/resources/manage/rpki/

I am not aware how popular and which company are using it, but I doubt that youtube is today as vulnerable as it was in 2008. BGP securities has a lot of tractions these days and is an interesting topic to follow.

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