Which is exactly what I mean by "there aren't enough independent security layers protecting sensitive systems." We've known that BGP has terrible security for many years.
Fixing it is hard because it requires a lot of independent parties to agree on what to do and update their routers. In theory this is the sort of thing a government could help with by providing funding, to fund research into solutions and/or provide cash incentives to early adopters.
But the market also solves these things eventually, since successful attacks are bad for business. It just takes for the attacks to actually happen first in that case.
Fixing it is hard because it requires a lot of independent parties to agree on what to do and update their routers. In theory this is the sort of thing a government could help with by providing funding, to fund research into solutions and/or provide cash incentives to early adopters.
But the market also solves these things eventually, since successful attacks are bad for business. It just takes for the attacks to actually happen first in that case.