Periodic reminder: "Operators, where are your MANRS?"<p><a href="https://www.manrs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.manrs.org/</a>
Would someone explain to a scrub what "route leaking" is? Would this be an issue because the leak receiver could inspect traffic that it wouldn't have gotten otherwise?
>Today’s incident shows that the Internet has not yet eradicated the problem of BGP route leaks. 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.<p>What incentives do they have not to route data from foreign adversaries through their networks? :')