The kremvax hoax (1984)

I was thinking you could probably implement it with ipfilter firewall rules pretty easily.

if you had control of for example 192.168.0.2, and it routed through your 192.168.0.1, you could reject packets by ttl value with src ip being whitehouse.gov and kremlin.ru and then any chain you wanted until ttl > 192.168.0.2.

EDIT: maybe https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute/blob/master/fakero...

When Vadim named his node later on as a post-hoc self-referential joke, it kind of made things even worse. Ironical self-deprecating humour can do that.

Jokes are sometimes both more and less funny than intended. It's in the nature of humour. When they escape into the wild, it can go to some very odd places. "The Aristocrats" is kind-of the end-game of "thats not funny" when it comes to apparently funny stories. Kremvax isn't quite there, but its along the road of things which demanded you make a wall between people, to insert some humour into it.