[nsp-sec] Why do a route hijack for 1 second?

[Hank Nussbacher]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Smith, Donald wrote:

> As Chris stated I believe this is accidental.
> If you knew you could do a route hijacking you should also be aware that EVERY time you did it would show up on some bodies radar no matter how short of a time you did it. So ever time you do it that is a good chance it gets noticed.
> You wouldn't do it on a regular basis unless you were dumb:)

They may not be aware that someone is monitoring that specific /24.  And 
they might also figure who would see a 1 second next-hop change.

-Hank