CRIME Attack Uses Compression Ratio of TLS Requests as Side Channel to Hijack Secure Sessions (threatpost)

Well, I was replying to the person who was claiming the other extreme, that such announcements required a kind of BGP connection that was very hard to obtain. Which is not the case. I did not argue that "anyone with a BGP router" could do it, however there are no real obstacles, other than needing a relatively small amount of money and perhaps a little time, to acquiring the capability.

Work to secure the BGP protocol is still quite a way away from being finished, never mind deployed.