Re: China vs. U.S.: The cyber Cold War is raging

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>]

On 7/28/2011 10:28 PM, Dave Paris wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> > http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/28/technology/government_hackers/
> > (This is part four of a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime)
> >
> > On April 8, 2010, traffic to about 15% of the world's websites was
> > rerouted to China.
> >
> > State-owned Internet company China Telecom tricked relays from around
> > the world into routing traffic *through* its servers for about 18
> > minutes.

Actually, routed "to" its servers.  This was not a two-way trip nor a
tap :)  It takes much more to actually MITM an IP block.

Jeff

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