Anyone want to give me a quote for an AmericaFree.TV report ? Off-list, please.
Regards Marshall On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Ryan Rawdon wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:45:14 -0500, Bob Poortinga > <bobp+na...@webster.tsc.com> wrote: >> This is starting to be picked up by mainstream media, but was was first >> reported here (I believe): >> >> > <http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=249> >> >> "Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet >> Traffic" >> >> "For 18 minutes in April, China.s state-controlled telecommunications >> company >> hijacked 15 percent of the world.s Internet traffic, including data > from >> U.S. >> military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies." >> >> This article, which quotes Dmitri Alperovitch of McAfee, is full of > false >> data as far as I can tell. I assert that much less than 15%, probably > on >> the order of 1% to 2% (much less in the US) was actually diverted. The >> correct statement is that 15% of the world's network prefixes were >> "hijacked", >> but the impact was minimal in the US. >> >> My concern is that this "report" will be presented to the US Congress >> without >> being refuted by experts in the know. >> >> My request is that someone with some gravitas please issue a press > release >> setting the facts straight on this matter. I have been in contact with > Dan >> Goodin at The Register but I'm just a lowly grunt with a small network. > > Also worth pointing out that if this was a normal prefix hijack without > them actually delivering the packets to the intended recipient (unlikely > the case), then there would be very little TCP data seen. A few packets on > existing connections before they time out, and SYNs on new connection > attempts. Unless they were able to push the traffic back to another ISP > which didn't see their originated routes, things would break more likely > than be "routed via" the hijacking AS. > > Ryan > > >
