A /24 wouldn't propagate much farther than the nearest IX and immediate peers, as presumably peers have learned to aggregate and filter in the last 20 years. At

A /24 wouldn't propagate much farther than the nearest IX and immediate peers, as presumably peers have learned to aggregate and filter in the last 20 years. At face value, it really seems like a shift to backup routes. Also, state level attacker view, hijacking a route from another ASN is a bit 3rd world, as if you were a superpower, you'd have already hacked the routers in question and would just loop traffic through and MPLS tunnel to your analysis centre.