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China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries

Posted by Soulskill on from the trial-run-successful dept.

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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  1. Re:I am not a fan of the USA gov't by clampolo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    God I wish both Republicans AND Democrats would shut up. Both parties accept huge bribes (campaign contributions) in exchange for votes. There is always a shameful deficit no matter who is in power (don't get started with Clinton and his raiding of Social Security to make the budget look balanced. No matter who is in charge, the army is out invading some new country: Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq, Panama, etc.

    This dumb Democrat healthcare bill is just as big a coporate handout to the pharmaceutical and insurance companies as the Republican prescription drug plan.

    So in summary: If you live on every word of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity OR Jon Stewart, Keith Olberman, etc, you are all equally stupid.