> Well, to my knowledge there's only really 2 real life instances you need to worry about (I'd welcome corrections if networking people can tell me about someth

> Well, to my knowledge there's only really 2 real life instances you need to worry about (I'd welcome corrections if networking people can tell me about something I missed): The author of that post missed BGP hijacking. (There's also NSA-style interception of the backbone links, but that's probably what the author considers "not a real life instance".)