Hijack

[Ceyfer √]

For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies.

This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was carried out and the implications of the incident are difficult for those outside the cybersecurity community to grasp, said a top security expert at McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated Internet security company.

In short, the Chinese could have carried out eavesdropping on unprotected communications — including emails and instant messaging — manipulated data passing through their country or decrypted messages, Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee said

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Here
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=249
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11773146


Funny, absorbed data ( including spam ) ?

[JayCub]

Thank you for the info Ceyfer, im sure China tracks everthing that moves on the net, pretty sure if they read my interactions they would be really confused, the strange thing is it showed up and it didn't barely get a mention as far as i know untill i read this post here, it's not new to spy on transmissions, as i remember England having an outpost in Northern Ireland checking every phone call to the Republic and mainland UK.. now it's the digital age, it's become easier....

[johnshaw1917]

Thanks for the interesting read ceyfer! My only comment would be that I suspect most of the advanced security agencies around the globe do the very same thing.

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the info ceyfer. Nothing can stop them .

[safeguy]

Let's all call this the "18 minutes of Doom". Anyone?

I've got nothing else better to say than: I can't do nothing much about it.