said by asdfdfdfdfdfdf :

I think you are right. What annoys me though, is when I read things like:

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who testified to Congress in 1998 that he could bring down the internet in 30 minutes using a similar BGP attack, and disclosed privately to government agents how BGP could also be exploited to eavesdrop. "I went around screaming my head about this about ten or twelve years ago.... We described this to intelligence agencies and to the National Security Council, in detail."

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Stephen Kent, chief scientist for information security at BBN Technologies, who has been working on solutions to fix the issue, said he demonstrated a similar BGP interception privately for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security a few years ago.

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Our government insists that they need backdoors and broad powers to monitor anyone's communications without fussy things like warrants and they talk of dire scenarios like terrorists bringing down our communications infrastructure and plunging us into chaos and and yet this same government can't be bothered to light fires under some asses to make sure resources are devoted to getting this sort of thing fixed.
Should make us wonder whether they believe their own breathless rhetoric.