China hijacked 15% of the world's internet traffic for 18 minutes.

[Swede]

This story is a month old,but it's not getting a lot of press,unlike the wikileaks.


Nobody outside of China can say, at least publicly, what happened to the terabytes of data after the traffic entered China.

For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies.

This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was carried out and the implications of the incident are difficult for those outside the cybersecurity community to grasp, said a top security expert at McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated Internet security company.

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=249

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[leveymg]

2. If you or I did that on a much smaller scale, the FBI would've knocked down our door.

It violates all sorts of federal laws, even if the keys were punched abroad. Big time no-no. Big.

[Heywood J]

5. It happens every now and then,

but the fact it went largely unnoticed says something about how much spare capacity China has been accumulating without fanfare recently.

[snooper2]

3. Funny article...

:rofl:

"For example, a person sending information from Arlington, Va., to the White House in Washington, D.C. — only a few miles away — could have had his data routed through China. Since traffic moves around the world in milliseconds, the computer user would not have noticed the delay."

Dmitri Alperovitch...So does this guy REALLY work for McAfee? If so, it could explain a lot of things :P

[d_r]

4. man that was a lot of porn

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Well that is an emerging empire already acting like one

Our cyber capacity (to fight this) is much lower than theirs.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. So do you think

DU was read in China for like about 18 minutes? Maybe that was a good thing.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. dupe