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Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

Oracle's Internet Intelligence division has confirmed today the findings of a recently published academic paper that accused China of "hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries." From a report: The research paper was authored by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University and it made quite a few waves online after it was published. Researchers accused China Telecom, one of China's biggest state-owned internet service providers, of hijacking and detouring internet traffic through its normally-closed internet infrastructure. Some security experts contested the research paper's findings because it didn't come from an authoritative voice in the world of internet BGP hijacks, but also because the paper touched on many politically sensitive topics, such as China's cyber-espionage activities and how China used BGP hijacks as a way to circumvent the China-US cyber pact of 2015. But today, Doug Madory, Director of Oracle's Internet Analysis division (formerly Dyn), confirmed that China Telecom has, indeed, engaged in internet traffic "misdirection." "I don't intend to address the paper's claims around the motivations of these actions," said Madori. "However, there is truth to the assertion that China Telecom (whether intentionally or not) has misdirected internet traffic (including out of the United States) in recent years."

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Pot and kettle, and all that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're no better, America, and in no position to point fingers. And what's more, judging by what you've been up to in the world in the last 20 years, we should be far more afraid of you doing these things than China (as you claim).

  2. Re:Lets build a new internet already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Much like we should have told C programmers to take a long walk off a short peer the moment the inevitability of buffer overflows and use after free became clear

    Son, you wouldn't have an internet, UNIX, Linux, or pretty much anything else interesting without C ... period.

    That nobody predicted the growth of the internet, or the security risks it would pose, is completely unsurprising to anybody with half a brain, which apparently you don't even qualify for.

    Don't go acting like a whiny punk if you couldn't do better and weren't there. I love you idiots who look back and think you could have done better.