Mishaps in Cyberland

The rerouting of a bunch of Internet traffic to an ISP in Russia last December was ignored by most news agencies.  Ars Technica, one of the few who ran substantive articles on it called it a “Mishap”.  That is an odd thing to call the routing of some well known companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple to a Russian ISP.  A similar thing happened several years ago when China rerouted US military traffic to Chinese ISPs “accidentally” they said.  I wrote about this 18-minute episode in my first book.  I thought then that this was never an accident as much as practicing for the future of war.  It wasn’t until Russia and China started sharing techniques that Russia started doing the same thing.  To me, there are clear indicators that both of them share techniques and are up to no good.  If either of them were to get deeper into war with the US, the other would certainly help out, never admitting anything, of course.