mojo
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 Posted: 03/01/2014 22:45 Post subject: Guadalajara to Washington via Belarus |
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How Internet could be hijacked...???
Huge chunks of Internet traffic belonging to financial institutions, government agencies, and network service providers have repeatedly been diverted to distant locations under unexplained circumstances that are stoking suspicions the traffic may be surreptitiously monitored or modified before being passed along to its final destination.
Guadalajara to Washington via Belarus
Renesys observed the first route hijacking in February 2013 when various routes across the globe were mysteriously funneled through Belarusian ISP GlobalOneBel before being delivered to their final destination.
One trace, traveling from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Washington, DC, normally would have been handed from Mexican provider Alestra to US provider PCCW in Laredo, Texas, and from there to the DC metro area and then, finally, delivered to users through the Qwest/Centurylink service provider.
Renesys observed 17 re directions to Iceland.
To appreciate how circuitous some of the routes were, consider the case of traffic passing between two locations in Denver.
As the graphic below traces, it traveled all the way to Iceland through a series of hops before finally reaching its intended destination.
Read more about repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic on:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hijack-huge-chunks-of-internet-traffic-researchers-warn/
That's why I have made some assertions on another topic ....that is very important on the cloud to work with chunks of files on different servers located on different locations on the world....because only
in that case every hijacked chunks from Internet become senseless...
even if the entire Internet is hijacked.. |
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