I don't think this article provides any evidence of anything to be scared of.

That said, based on what we know already, there is no reason to take everything is this article at face value necessarily.

Firstly, if anybody isn't aware of the history of Stuxnet, it's worth reading, because otherwise you'd underestimate the government's ability to use 0-days by an order of magnitude (we're talking full custom-written multi-month hacking projects with root-kits and custom fake drivers delivered successfully to an airgapped system, source wikipedia). Also worth learning about Dual EC DRBG debacle.

Secondly am immediate friend of mine worked at a FANG company that routinely sent a firehose of all sorts of things matching all sorts of filters directly to governments. In fact many ISPS have back-doors built in and that's not really disputed (wikipedia: room641A).

So the question to ask yourself is -- if this was a deliberate interaction that cloudfare was required to participate in via a warrant, would they legally even be allowed to publish a blog post that contradicted this?

So I think that is probably the default attitude of skepticism you are seeing, which in my opinion is a good default. Plus the primary claim of this article "Look it wasn't 1 routing issue, it's been happening for even longer! Therefore nothing to look at here!" seems really weak.

I share your view - how does this article imply US companies and/or government involvement? If there were such involvement what aspect of BGP gives the US entities more ability to carry this out vs other nefarious actors? I ask this sincerely knowing almost nothing about BGP and wanting to learn...

Probably because most people only read headlines (and maybe 3 paragraphs) combined with the fact that the US has a long history of doing what people are condemning them for, even if this particular instance probably wasn't a case of such behavior. Especially considering how the general sentiment towards the US has gotten bitter with constant threads of invasion of Denmark and Canada by their government.

Or it's just Russian and China socket accounts? Who knows...

There was another post a few days ago that suggested a connection between the American invasion of Venezuela and the BGP anomaly: https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/

Combine that with the news of Trump publicly admitting that the US is willing to take military action to bring other countries in line, even against their own allies: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/us-options-green...

Personally, I don't think the Americans would bother hide their attack and make it look like an accident under the current regime. Trump would announce the CIA/NSA/FBI/whatever did the Greatest Attack, and Amazing Attack, to Completely Control and break the Weak Government of Venezuela to Rescue Their Oil. I'll believe the "it was just a misconfiguration" explanation for now.

I think it only makes sense that people start fearing the influence of American companies given the current developments. When America is in the news, it's either threatening someone, pulling out of cooperative efforts, or delivering on a previous threat. That's bound to derail discussions whenever American companies are involved and it'll only get worse with the way things are developing.

I think it’s just bog standard, “USA bad, not USA good” thinking.

I mean, it's the context around the article...based on recent events...