I am talking more about finger slips than actual malicious intent. Like when Facebook broke themselves or when Turkey broke YouTube for the whole world for a couple hours.
There are ways of detecting it like using rpki to reject poisoned prefixes or BGPmon to track the origin of prefixes or as an after action use Ripe BGPlay to see how a prefix was rerouted.
At any point in time the entire internet is one finger slip away from breaking or being hijacked.
How do we know it hasn’t already been hijacked
No one would publically disclose that if they did
And its easier to hijack the Internet than you think
You just need to poison the information that is avalible to manipulate the right audience to your end goal and people already do that
Just look into the “kochtopus” for example
https://dividednolonger.com/kochtopus/
https://prezi.com/5xzibopikc3a/ifgs-kochtopus-mapping-the-influence-of-koch-cash/
Now find similar groups to the kochtopus and see if they are interconnected with other groups
Find those and you’ll find the people who secretly hijack the Internet
What you need to dismantle are those groups
Help bring them into public knowledge so more people are aware of them
The more people are aware of them the more they will share
And the more people are aware of them the more these groups power will waver as people begin to become aware of their manipulation
I am talking more about finger slips than actual malicious intent. Like when Facebook broke themselves or when Turkey broke YouTube for the whole world for a couple hours.
There are ways of detecting it like using rpki to reject poisoned prefixes or BGPmon to track the origin of prefixes or as an after action use Ripe BGPlay to see how a prefix was rerouted.
At any point, someone could be thrown through a wall and crush the internet box (I am talking about that IT Crowd sketch - so good!:-P).
There is always an XKCD