(The Sydney Morning Herald - Nov 20, 2018)
How China diverts, then spies on Australia's internet traffic.
(article excerpt)
Internet traffic heading to Australia was diverted via mainland China over a six-day period last year, in what some experts believe may have enabled a targeted data theft.
The diverted traffic from Europe and North America was logged as a routing error by the state-owned China Telecom, according to data released for the first time by researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Naval War College in the US.
The data diversions were possible as China Telecom has 10 Points of Presence (PoPs) in North America. Foreign carries have no comparable infrastructure across mainland China.
China Telecom has long been regarded as a passive service provider, despite being state-owned, and therefore has attracted none of the suspicion of Chinese telecommunications providers like Huawei or ZTE.
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"China Telecom has 10 Points of Presence (PoPs) in North America."
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WUT?! Would you let a burglar install your alarm system?
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"China Telecom has long been regarded as a passive service provider, despite being state-owned."
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Well that's just plain Stupid. Of course it's State-Owned.
Yet another story of China diverting internet traffic to spy.
These are the ramifications of being sold-out by traitors.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-china-diverts-then-spies-on-australia-s-internet-traffic-20181120-p50h80.html