• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    That’s not exactly how it works. There is no specific core, all web traffic doesn’t go through one centralized location; it gets routed through the most direct route on each if these routers’ routing tables

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        10 days ago

        You can’t even truly read what’s inside of an SSL packet. They probably want to fuck with the routes around torrent trackers.

        There are always ways around, tor, retro share, i2p. I kind of wish we’d find a harder to track version of torrent.

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      10 days ago

      My point is, if you’re blocked traversing the routers across the sea you’re not reaching those other continents. That’s a bit of a simplistic way of looking at it, given satellite internet and stuff but my point is it is not that incredibly hard to block the routes. Especially with BGP. BGP on the internet also has some bodies regulating route ASN reputation, so those could be potentially null routed.

      Anyways, I clearly have no clue what I’m talking about so I’ll stop there.

    • credo@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      You can poison the routes within the BGP core to send traffic into a black hole. Basically, just tell everyone you have the best path, and they will send traffic to you.

      There have been instances of this at the international level with adversary nations “accidentally” routing all traffic through them first. It can be done to a degree that it makes life difficult. They won’t be able to prevent you from finding a VPN that pops you out near a router that refuses the poisoned routes however- not without a global agreement at least.