The addition is about 20 milliseconds locally, 25 milliseconds half-way across the country and 75 milliseconds to reroute traffic fully across the country.

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The company has operations centers around the country that can monitor and reroute traffic, and its equipment can run on backup batteries and generators for a few days if needed.

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The flood damage knocked out websites and forced telecoms carriers to reroute international traffic.

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Sunday at the Defcon hacker conference, Kapela and Pilosov are presenting a new technique that allows hackers to remotely reroute Internet traffic without the target's knowledge.

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To prove the feasibility of the technique, Kapela and Pilosov, both owners of small networking companies, collaborated with conference organizers to reroute all of Defcon's Los Vegas Internet traffic through Pilosov's company servers in New York.

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