Chinese Meddling with the Internet
"The United States-China Economic and Security Revision Commission (USCESRC) recently submitted its annual report, starting a debate concerning the motives of IDC China Telecommunications, a small Chinese Internet service provider that briefly rerouted about 15 percent of Internet traffic on two separate occasions last Spring. That information was retransmitted by China's state-controlled China Telecommunications, forcing data from the United States and other countries to pass through Chinese servers."
Full article HERE.
Geeee...I wonder...what possible reason could the Chinese have to do something like this?
Full article HERE.
Geeee...I wonder...what possible reason could the Chinese have to do something like this?
posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 12:42
4 Comments:
Nothing new. In my previous life, I monitored thousands of probes daily from Chinese IPs. We'd discuss this on occasion in the CSRA computer security group I was running. Do we really think they are our best pals?
G.
"..... the Chinese government holds a copy of an encryption master key"....
I've never heard of "an encryption master key". Has anyone else?
PeteK
Ok.. As I first thought....the writer of the article was full of shit...
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/11/journal-master-key-to-the-internet/
PeteK
From PeteK's link:
"We have three thoughts:
1) There’s been a movie on the idea [of an encryption master key], and a low-rent mind might have been led to use the idea for spin."
Since "low-rent mind" pretty well describes everyone who works for the New York Times, I'm going with that explanation.
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