Comment by mywittyname
6 days ago
What would be the result of this? I think it would route data through Sparkle as a way of potentially spying on internet traffic without having compromised the network equipment within Venezuela, but I'm not familiar enough with network architecture to really understand what happened.
Maybe there would be some benefit in just dropping some packets. For example to WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail servers. Could add a communication delay that could be critical and denies people a fairly reliable fallback communication method.
The effect of this would be traffic from GlobeNet destined for Dayco would transit over CANTV's network for a period.
I'm not sure why the author singled out Telecom Italia Sparkle.