Borders (BGP) was among the high profile bankruptcies in the retail business in 2011.

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As part of the deal, the car will be renamed the Virgin BGP 001.

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While resilient, the Internet suffers from a glaring vulnerability: the impact of spurious Border Gate Protocol (BGP) routing.

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But they raise the question of when an Internet superpower will use the big guns: BGP route announcements.

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Worse, if multiple companies standardise on the same hardware, you get problems like the Juniper BGP routering vulnerability that nailed Blackberry maker RIM and a number of ISPs.

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Lyon writes that this sort of BGP redirection happens frequently.

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Coming into the day, BGP was trading for just .05x sales per share, which is well below the historically normal price-to-sales valuation range for BGP of 0.17x to 0.33x.

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The malicious announcement of BGP routes could temporarily completely disrupt Internet traffic for any network and could have spillover effects that could take an entire country offline, as happened in the Pakistan-YouTube incident.

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Borders Group ( BGP - news - people ), delaying payments to publishers and distributors as it struggles to refinance its debt, shut down approximately 200 of its Borders and Waldenbooks stores in 2010.

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