It's interesting that there's been little attention paid to what this genre of backbone/infrastructure tapping means for companies using content accelerators (or whatever they're called).

Considering what we now know about tailored access operations, I find it hard to imagine they've not used these abilities to subvert the auto-update functionality of virtually every product there is out there.

Ie. client requests auto-update from front-end server, update is switched and replaced before hitting the front-end server & being delivered.