http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/wtf-russias-domestic-internet-traffic-mysteriously-passes-through-china/
By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Nov 9 2014
Domestic Internet traffic traveling inside the borders of Russia has
repeatedly been rerouted outside of the country under an unexplained
series of events that degrades performance and could compromise the
security of Russian communications.
The finding, reported Thursday in a blog post published by Internet
monitoring service Dyn, underscores the fragility of the border gateway
protocol (BGP), which forms the underpinning of the Internet's global
routing system. In this case, domestic Russian traffic was repeatedly
routed to routers operated by China Telecom, a firm with close ties to
that country's government. When huge amounts of traffic are diverted to
far-away regions before ultimately reaching their final destination, it
increases the chances hackers with the ability to monitor the connections
have monitored or even altered some of the communications. A similar
concern emerged last year, when Dyn found big chunks of traffic belonging
to US banks, government agencies, and network service providers had been
improperly routed through Belarusian or Icelandic service providers.
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