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The key bit is at the end:

>It also reveals that China Telecom, a major International carrier, has still implemented neither the basic routing safeguards necessary both to prevent the propagation of routing leaks nor the processes and procedures necessary to detect and remediate them in a timely manner when they inevitably occur.

So basically a lack of external pressure combined with a lack of caring about preventing this.



China Telecom has minimum routing safeguards. I don't know how it works exactly, but I've heard anecdotes from Chinese network operators on multiple occasions, they say you can even steal free IP addresses from China Telecom through BGP, and normally they don't even care...


The Great Firewall partially relies on spoofing IP addresses (via BGP) for active probing. Might be related?


> So basically a lack of external pressure combined with a lack of caring about preventing this

Could someone who's paranoid guess that this is done on purpose, the goal being to capture all the packets before sending them back towards the correct ISPs?




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