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  • verb transitive To route incorrectly; to send the wrong way.

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ route

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Examples

  • There are, as far as I can see, essentially three things an attacker could do in the BT core network - crash the whole thing (denial of service), spy on somebody's traffic, or spoof a network entity, to pose as one in order to misroute traffic for some sinister aim.

    AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media 2009

  • There are, as far as I can see, essentially three things an attacker could do in the BT core network - crash the whole thing (denial of service), spy on somebody's traffic, or spoof a network entity, to pose as one in order to misroute traffic for some sinister aim.

    AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media 2009

  • Time to "accidentally misroute" tens of thousands of absentee ballots from overseas military bases.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • Time to "accidentally misroute" tens of thousands of absentee ballots from overseas military bases.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • u transfer the customer on the right choice, u track it down moments after .. boom!! customer was misroute .. i pity them especially if the person / customer i spoke with is so kind,, i really love to help but there are policies need to follow or else a respective sanction will come on way!!

    Tech Beat - BusinessWeek 2009

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