On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

So that _really_ begs the question... Why did Circle Internet and (apparently)
Level3's customer, BANDCON, blindly accept _any_ sort of assertion that the
crook who hijacked these two /16s had the right to use them?

What makes you think it was blind? The standard industry practice is to ask someone requesting to announce a route for a letter on the owner's letter head authorizing the announcement. Is it really that hard to invent some letterhead and sign a letter?

It's probably one of the easiest to circumvent "security" procedures ever.

Frankly it's a giant waste of time and does nothing other than frustrate legitimate work.

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