China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'

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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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