China Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world’s Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year. The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission as being involved in the incident. “For about 18 minutes on April 8, 2010, China Telecom advertised erroneous network traffic routes that instructed U.S. and other foreign Internet traffic to travel through Chinese servers,” the Commission’s report stated.
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Massive Chinese Net Reroute Exposes Web's Achilles' Heel
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 17, 2010 12:29 PMChina Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world’s Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year. The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission as being involved in the incident. “For about 18 minutes on April 8, 2010, China Telecom advertised erroneous network traffic routes that instructed U.S. and other foreign Internet traffic to travel through Chinese servers,” the Commission’s report stated.