[#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked

Fri Feb 3 05:59:35 UTC 2012

>> The suits won, and many nerds either threw in with them or revealed
>> their affinity for the easy life and gave up. Being principled and
>> turning away dirty money or exercising the "fire the customer" clause
>> tends to be disliked by corporate officers.
> bottom line -- the only way to fix this problem is for bad behavior to
> become more expensive than good behavior. it's the only thing the
> pointy hairs will understand.

i just love to read geeks discussing legal and financial solutions.
just about as educational as watching lawyers and cfos discussing
engineering.

seeing as we are purportedly engineers, perhaps we could discuss a
technical engineering approach to prefix misorigination?

randy