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Web traffic redirected to China in mystery mix-up

By ADF Alliance Alert

CNET: Workers at Internet network operation centers around the world are trying to figure out why traffic to sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook was redirected to servers in China this week, giving Web surfers around the globe a glimpse of what Chinese Internet users see when they try to access those blocked sites . . . 'This was a real world example of the Net security industry's worst nightmare,' he said. 'And last night it happened.' . . . 'The wider problems are that it appears that someone in China can disrupt Facebook for someone in California,' he said. 'It appears we can no longer see the Internet as a friendly shared resource and that strict boundaries will have to be put in place. The problem is the technology is not really there to make that happen.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).