Many internet outages are caused by problems with the trust-based Border Gateway Protocol, which was conceived in 1989 and remains largely unchanged since 1994
IN A WEEKS-LONG stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. Tweets: @campuscodi , @kiraallmann , and @wired Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : @Techmeme @lilyhnewman I remember taking the Cisco CCNA certification more than a decade ago and the instructor telling us that BGP is on the brink of being replaced... Kira Allmann / @kiraallmann : “On the internet, it's crucial for data to get where it's supposed to go, yet BGP hinges on something a little bit slippery: trust.” The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages | WIRED https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Last year, Google Cloud suffered hours of disruptions. This month, European mobile data was rerouted through state-backed China Telecom. Hackers have stolen cryptocurrency with ease. All thanks to a decades-old internet protocol that breaks down too often https://www.wired.com/...