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potaters Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: China's internet hijacking |
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Cybercrime experts have found proof that China hijacked the Internet for 18 minutes last April. China absorbed 15% of the traffic from US military and civilian networks, as well as from other Western countries—a massive chunk. Nobody knows why.
We know how it happened, however. On April 8, China Telecom's routers sent messages declaring that their network channels were the fastest available at that point. Since the traffic routing is based on trust between the world's telecommunication providers, other Internet routers redirected their traffic through China's network.
Security expert Dmitri Alperovitch—VP of threat research at McAfee—says that this happens "accidentally" a few times a year, but this time it was different: The China Telecom network absorbed all the data that is was sent to it, returning it without delay. Before, this kind of accident would have resulted in communication problems, which lead experts to believe this wasn't an accident but a deliberated attempt to capture as much data as possible.
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Cryoma Member of the Year
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| 18 minutes, chances are I wasn't even on.
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Cryoma wrote: | | 18 minutes, chances are I wasn't even on. |
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