https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-has-been-hijacking-the-vital-internet-backbone-of-western-countries/
By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet News
October 26, 2018
A Chinese state-owned telecommunications company has been "hijacking the
vital internet backbone of western countries," according to an academic
paper published this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and
Tel Aviv University.
The culprit is China Telecom, the country's third-largest telco and
internet service provider (ISP), which has had a presence inside North
American networks since the early 2000s when it created its first
point-of-presence (PoP).
PoPs are data centers that do nothing more than re-route traffic between
all the smaller networks that make up the larger internet.
These smaller networks are known as "autonomous systems" (AS) and they can
be the networks of big tech companies like Google, your friendly
neighborhood ISP, big tier-1 ISPs like Verizon, university networks, bank
networks, web hosting companies, and all entities big enough to have
received their own block of IP addresses.
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