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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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Someone had to say it.
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.