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Chinese ISP Hijacks the Internet (Again)
CWmike writes "For the second time in two weeks, bad networking information spreading from China has disrupted the Internet. On Thursday morning, bad routing data from a small Chinese ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China's state-owned China Telecommunications, and then spread around the Internet, affecting Internet service providers such as AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, Qwest Communications, and Telefonica. 'There are a large number of ISPs who accepted these routes all over the world,' said Martin A. Brown, technical lead at Internet monitoring firm Renesys. Brown said the incident started just before 10 am Eastern and lasted about 20 minutes. During that time the Chinese ISP transmitted bad routing information for between 32,000 and 37,000 networks, redirecting them to IDC instead of their rightful owners. These networks included about 8,000 US networks, including those operated by Dell, CNN, Starbucks, and Apple. More than 8,500 Chinese networks, 1,100 in Australia, and 230 owned by France Telecom were also affected."
now you can order iPad direct from china through apple.com
Obviously the only way to protect the Border Gateway Protocol is to build a fence around it. (Spits. Scratches ass.)
"I'm not a quack, I'm a mad scientist! There's a difference." - Dr. Cockroach
Yeah, but it came from Confucius so it can't be trusted.
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English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?
Someone had to say it.
Once is an accident,
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is enemy action.
'cause we created it. Thanks.
nuff said. Ok, I will ellaborate, but that shouldnt be neccecary. Do you really need to read more?
This may be a cyberwar between a multinational corporation and China. Google will of course win this war. The war is secret, and not fought with bullets. Oh, you want to know even more? That is hardly neccecary, but I will go on.
Also, we will need to equip an army of female acrobatic tech-warriors wearing tight-fitted latex with large open cleavages. That can probably keep the kung-fu chinese hackers at bay. Now you know all you need to know, no need to read further.
If all fails, the US must deploy the sharks with laser-beams on their heads witch they used to sever the middle-eastern Internet connection some years ago. They can keep the US coast safe from spyware. But this is all. I swear! There is no more sinister things going on.
Now, I must get back to my experiments. Nothing to see here .... move along....
Good walls work both ways. To "help" China from being tainted by the evil ways of us westerners let's just cut them off completely.
Tisha Hayes
Confucius say, Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok.
*GONG*
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.