Google's services went down for an hour yesterday after its IP addresses were routed way from normal paths to Nigeria, China and Russia. Google told Ars Technica it doubted the leak was malicious, despite the fact that government-owned China Telecom was recently caught routing Western carrier traffic through mainland China. Some of Google's most sensitive data, including its corporate WAN infrastructure and VPN, were reportedly redirected.
So this hijacking of a mountain of data wasn't malicious?
But it was possible even if it was just a "big, ugly screw-up."
So if China or Russia decide to do it for malicious purposes, they now know they can do it.
I doubt the Nigeria role was malicious. The Russians and Chinese probably could just bribe somebody in Nigeria.
