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While some observers speculate that high-profile BGP anomalies could facilitate state-sponsored intelligence gathering, technical experts argue that AS prepending is a routine traffic engineering tool used to de-prioritize specific routes. In the case of the CANTV incident, the extreme prepending likely points to a benign misconfiguration rather than a malicious hijack, as making a path less attractive is counterintuitive for an entity seeking to intercept data. Ultimately, these perspectives suggest that such routing fluctuations are often just mundane, daily occurrences in the complex landscape of global network management.