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The most prominent example of AS33514 being weaponized occurred in February 2022, immediately following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In an unprecedented move, the Russian state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, began throttling the speed of access to Twitter. Technically, this was an intervention at the routing level; Russian ISPs were instructed to degrade the packets coming from AS33514 IP prefixes. Later, access was blocked entirely in Russia. is more than just a number on a looking glass
Operating AS33514 also involves constant defense against cyber threats, particularly BGP hijacking. BGP, the protocol that governs how data flows across the internet, was built on a system of trust. It assumes that when a network announces a route, it is telling the truth. However, if a malicious actor were to announce a more specific route for an IP block belonging to AS33514, they could potentially divert traffic meant for Twitter to a black hole (causing an outage) or, more dangerously, to a server designed to harvest credentials. To manufacture the specific "port contour" required for