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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by ag_47 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:23PM (#15915671)
Basically, a router somewhere in Russia claimed to be the owner of some ip addresses belonging to Google, Facebook, etc. Other neighbouring routers began forwarding packets from actual users to this router. The packets contain the HTTPS requests people were making to these sites.
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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by VVayneTracker on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:49PM (#15936310)
Bit late to the party but what could be done with the information that they got their hands on?
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