More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.

The exploit of the routing protocol known as BGP, short for Border Gateway Protocol, is akin to the poor man's traffic intercept employed by intelligence agencies throughout the world. Like the recently discovered domain name system cache poisoning bug, the exploit is notable because it highlights weaknesses in some of the net's core underpinnings.

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