Operation Red Lantern or False Horizon¶
No paperwork exists that uses either of these names. Several people use them anyway, which is how one knows it is real.
Messenger routing hacks:
- The Compass Rose
- The Tinker’s Bench
- Rootways of the World Tree (@Internet)
- Compromised customer → false‑origin prefix hijack
- Route leak escalating into an effective hijack
- Legitimate peering → more‑specific prefix hijack
- Incomplete RPKI deployment → opportunistic prefix hijack
- Policy trust abuse → preferred‑path hijack
- Strategic traffic interception via stealthy prefix hijack
- Path manipulation for selective degradation and coercion
- Route legitimacy subversion and long‑term positioning
- Narrative shaping via deniable routing disruption
- The Whisper Wall