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Google Suffered a Brief Outage on Monday Which Pushed Some of Its Traffic Through Russia, China and Nigeria; Company Says It Will Do an Investigation (cnet.com)
Google suffered a brief outage and slowdown Monday, with some of its traffic getting rerouted through networks in Russia, China and Nigeria. From a report: Incorrect routing instructions sent some of the search giant's traffic to Russian network operator TransTelekom, China Telecom (which, as you may recall, has been found of misdirecting internet traffic in recent months) and Nigerian provider MainOne between 1:00 p.m. and 2:23 p.m. PT, according to internet research group ThousandEyes. "This incident at a minimum caused a massive denial of service to G Suite and Google Search," wrote Ameet Naik, ThousandEyes' technical marketing manager, in a blog post. "However, this also put valuable Google traffic in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance. Applications like Gmail and Google Drive don't appear to have been affected, but YouTube users experienced some slowdown. Google noted that the issue was resolved and said it would conduct an internal investigation. Update: Nigeria's Main One Cable Co has taken responsibility for the glitch.
Oh, right, all of your important information could be shunted off to your competitors. But that's not a big deal, right?
Look, I help people set up private servers to keep their data out of "the Cloud" but you can't be wrong about the arguments.
Event IF this were a BGP hijack rather than a misconfiguration error and even IF they had minted Google.com certs trusted by the default root stores, Chrome would have picked up the pinned-certificate fingerprint mismatches and refused to connect. Everything in Google's suite happens over TLS.
Yes, this would cause an outage, which costs time and money, but your information does not wind up in the hands of your competitors.
Make technically valid business arguments - don't spout crazy conspiracy theories.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
This is just another in a long string of reasons to slowly back away from google.
If you think this is a google-only problem, you should have your posting rights taken away immediately. This isn't just happening to Google, it's happening to just about everyone. If your traffic isn't encrypted, then this is a great reason to slowly back away from you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
There is a lesson to be learned in here somewhere, both for you and for grandma.
in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This might be news to some, but the US is a country with a long history of internet surveillance. AT&T maintains an entire room in one of their san francisco datacenters that does nothing but explicitly snoop traffic for the government.
Good people go to bed earlier.
The headline makes it sound like Google had a brief outage and that caused some traffic to be routed through Russia and China. What actually happened is Some Google Traffic Routed Through Russia and China Causing Brief Outage.
But since we're all used to awful headlines here at Slashdot, and we know we can't expect much better from the original source cnet, that's perfectly fine.
Better known as 318230.