Internet Hijackings Endangers Entire System

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman

For 18 minutes in April, one seventh of the entire internet was routed through China, an accident, China telecom claims. Now, experts are suggesting the occurrence was not an error but rather a purposeful manipulation in order to give Chinese experts time to analyze all of the data running through its servers. The April incident happened when a small Chinese internet service provider updated its routing information advertising its network was the best way to evade blocks of internet addresses assigned to government agencies. Presently there is no way to stop such information highjacking. Security experts within the government are looking at the internet re-routings as a matter of national security.