Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale. For four decades, it has done exactly that. It has also, throughout those four decades, been exploited, misconfigured, and abused in ways that were predictable from the start. Route hijacks reroute traffic through hostile networks. Route leaks knock services offline. Nation-state cyber crew...