Submission + - BGP Security Hole shown at DEFCON
sarkeizen writes: A recent post to Wired's blog network mentions two presenters Anton "Tony" Kapela and Alex Pilosov demonstrating the ability to use BGP to eavesdrop on unencrypted traffic. They allege that:
"Anyone with a BGP router (ISPs, large corporations or anyone with space at a carrier hotel) could intercept data headed to a target IP address or group of addresses."
Perhaps this isn't a big threat from individual hackers but it could have significant privacy implications if it could be done by any sufficiently large organization (i.e. governments, corporations, organized crime)