It will be interesting to see how this rolls around. I have listened to people complain about the insecurity of BGP for years. Got to experience a bit of it when a bad router update our ASIN in it and sent our traffic out and about briefly (fortunately just pushing up latency not killing the web site.)
It is currently the most effective and useless DDOS strategy to push a black hole route out for the 'target.' Effective since all their packets will stop getting to them, useless because it points exactly at the point where it is coming from, and NOCs have gotten reasonably good at working around bogus advertisements. So it is short lived.
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It will be interesting to see how this rolls around. I have listened to people complain about the insecurity of BGP for years. Got to experience a bit of it when a bad router update our ASIN in it and sent our traffic out and about briefly (fortunately just pushing up latency not killing the web site.)
It is currently the most effective and useless DDOS strategy to push a black hole route out for the 'target.' Effective since all their packets will stop getting to them, useless because it points exactly at the point where it is coming from, and NOCs have gotten reasonably good at working around bogus advertisements. So it is short lived.