China hijacking US Govt, Military & Corporate web traffic? (contractors, Chinese)

[18Montclair]

This is ridiculous. California defense contractors and tech companies really need to think about this.

In April of this year, 15% of the world’s internet traffic, including data to/from the Pentagon, and other official US governmental and military sites, was rerouted through China for 18 minutes. A 316 page report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that massive volumes of internet traffic intended for .gov and .mil sites was hijacked by Chinese state-owned ‘China Telecom’. Traffic intended for large companies such as Microsoft and Dell was also hijacked.

Some readers may be wondering why there wasn’t more of a media storm in April; well, according to one of the big cheeses over at McAfee, that is because the nature of the hijacking is still slightly uncertain and the implications can be difficult for those without the ‘cyber know how’ to grasp….that includes us! In the report by the Commission they have stated that:

"Although the Commission has no way to determine what, if anything, Chinese telecommunications firms did to the hijacked data, incidents of this nature could have a number of serious implications"

Cyberwar? China hijacks US government and military web traffic - Shanghaiist

[Angel Calzadilla]

I believe american intelligence is behind all that. US is testing China. No more comments necesary to be added about.