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[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

No, Ivan will just announce "hey, I have direct link into these ASs" and lot of parties will believe him, consider him shortest route and send him lot of traffic intended for said ASs.

That's what china did in 2010 when they hijacked about 15% of all world's traffic.

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=mca

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ... for 18 minutes

    With their existing infrastructure in the US which Russia doesn't have

    And it was detected (and was trivial to fix once detected it sounds like) even before people were particularly alerted to this as a possibility

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