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by ErikD 4967 days ago
That's what https is for. It should prevent them from doing anything useful with the packets.
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Not unless you manage to forge a certificate at the same time. It has been done before, as SSL is based on more or less the same level of trust as BGP.
Maybe you can't read the data in the packets, but HTTPS doesn't do a thing about SIGINT (signals intelligence) which, on such a large scale, could give you a lot of valuable information.