On: Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom

[Hikikomori]

That part is not silly. But the way it happened in this case (and most cases like this) makes it silly to think they did it on purpose because they didn't actually do anything, no active choice or action on their part was required for it to happen. You could suggest that they are dragging their feet on implementing safeguards and just hoping that one of their customers leaks some routes to them so they can capture some random data, but I would call that silly as well. When they do it will be targeted and effective.

[tropo → Hikikomori]

Are there any Chinese guest workers in Europe? How about agents and/or Europeans who could be bribed to misroute?

What about the above, applied to a country that is between Europe and China? Such a country could passively listen while China takes the blame.

[kazen44 → tropo]

> What about the above, applied to a country that is between Europe and China? Such a country could passively listen while China takes the blame.

This statement doesn't make sense.

The BGP peering infrastructure has nothing to do with countries being "in between" europe and china.

I think you are overly paranoid, misrouting happens (quite a lot actually) and BGP routing changes are very easy to track thanks to the nature of BGP.

There are far more "stealthy" ways of getting desired traffic.