Trusting BGP sessions

On Mon, 13 November 2000, David Diaz wrote:

The cabal makes jokes "Officially there is no cabal." In reality the fact is that peering is a trust event. You are

Peering is a business decision. It is not an engineering decision nor a trust event. Technically, can a peer BGP session do any more or less damage to your network than a customer BGP session? The protocol is identical.