YouTube IP Hijacking

Mon Feb 25 07:32:49 UTC 2008

At 05:31 AM 25-02-08 +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this could happen.
>More precisely, we've been warning that this could happen *again*; we
>all know about many older incidents, from the barely noticed to the very
>noisy.  (AS 7007, anyone?)  Something like S-BGP will stop this cold.
>
>Yes, I know there are serious deployment and operational issues.  The
>question is this: when is the pain from routing incidents great enough
>that we're forced to act?  It would have been nice to have done
>something before this, since now all the world's script kiddies have
>seen what can be done.

"we've been warning that this could happen *again*" - this is happening 
every day - just look to:
http://cs.unm.edu/~karlinjf/IAR/prefix.php?filter=most
http://cs.unm.edu/~karlinjf/IAR/subprefix.php?filter=most
for samples.  Thing is - these prefix hijacks are not big ticket sites like 
Youtube or Microsoft or Cisco or even whitehouse.gov - but rather just 
sites that never make it onto the NANOG radar.

-Hank