> Tony, I take your remark as a pro and not as a con. The BGP concept as of 
> today is such that you cannot
> harm all by harming just a special well confined subset thereof (like e.g. 
> the ALT-routers).


Heiner,

As a bit of a reality check: the bad guys have computers.  They know how to 
program.  They regularly attack tens of thousands of routers every single day.

Every single system in the infrastructure that has the least visibility is 
subject to abuse.  Whether there are 10,000 or 1,000 or 100,000 of such systems 
does not matter in the least.  The bad guys have scale on their side.  They own 
the hosts at the edges.

Tony


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