It’s Probably Nothing. China Rerouted Internet Traffic Thru Mainland China

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“It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were intentional hijackings…”

Who writes this crap?


China Telecom, the large international communications carrier with close ties to the Chinese government, misdirected big chunks of Internet traffic through a roundabout path that threatened the security and integrity of data passing between various providers’ backbones for two and a half years, a security expert said Monday. It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were intentional hijackings of the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol or were caused by accidental mishandling.

For almost a week late last year, the improper routing caused some US domestic Internet communications to be diverted to mainland China before reaching their intended destination…

Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom
 
Bullshit. Unless the routing tables allow traffic to be sent to China it wont be sent there. We us BGP to route internet traffic and if we dont want it going to China it wont.
 
“It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were intentional hijackings…”

Who writes this crap?


China Telecom, the large international communications carrier with close ties to the Chinese government, misdirected big chunks of Internet traffic through a roundabout path that threatened the security and integrity of data passing between various providers’ backbones for two and a half years, a security expert said Monday. It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were intentional hijackings of the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol or were caused by accidental mishandling.

For almost a week late last year, the improper routing caused some US domestic Internet communications to be diverted to mainland China before reaching their intended destination…

Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom

Yes, I posted this last week. Some of the activity went through Toronto. Surprised?

Wake up America...
 

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