China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries

angry tapir writes "A networking error has caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of the Great Firewall of China, redirecting Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube users to Chinese servers. Security experts are not sure exactly how this happened, but it appears that at least one ISP recently began fetching high-level DNS information, from what's known as a root DNS server, based in China. That server, operated out of China by Swedish service provider Netnod, returned DNS information intended for Chinese users, effectively spreading China's network censorship overseas."

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I am not a fan of the USA gov't

[Ralph Spoilsport]

or any other bunch of capitalist parasites. But I should like to take this moment to say to the people reading this who are monitoring this site for the Chinese Government, these few simple words:

Kindly go fuck yourself.

Re:I am not a fan of the USA gov't

[ScentCone]

The only time our debt has gone down since that giant "debt clock" thing was built was under Clinton

Yup. And lucky Clinton got to benefit from the coasting period following the Regean economic growth, and he got have a nice big vacation from the Cold War and its current counterparts. This had nothing to do with Clinton, and everything to do with what he was handed by circumstance. By the time Clinton was done, we were well on our way to a recession, a ruinous housing/tech bubble, and Islamists that he was hoping would just go away were ramping up to 9/11, even though Clinton gave them a very stern lecture about attacking the WTC the first time, blowing up US embassies, and damaging the USS Cole with casualties to her crew, etc.