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Facebook Data thru China - Proof Internet Not Always Safe

A funny thing happened to some traffic heading to Facebook earlier this week. It ended up going out of the way through China.

Rodney Joffe, senior technologist at DNS (Domain Name System) registry Neustar, described it as "route hijacking."

"It's real. It is happening. It can't be described as an 'accident' anymore," Joffe, who observed similar traffic snafus involving China last year, said in an e-mail to CNET today.

According to a CNET article:

"Quietly this morning customers of AT&T browsing Facebook did so by way of China then Korea. Typically, AT&T customers' data would have routed over the AT&T network directly to Facebook's network provider, but due to a routing mistake their private data went first to Chinanet then via Chinanet to SK Broadband in South Korea, then to Facebook. This means that anything you looked at via Facebook without encryption was exposed to anyone operating Chinanet, which has a very suspect modus operandi."

In his analysis, Lyon speculates that most likely nothing happened to the data.

"This happens all the time--the Internet is just not a trusted network," he wrote. "Yet I prefer to know that when I am on AT&T's network, going to U.S.-located sites, my packets are not accidentally leaving the country and being subject to another nation's policies."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20046338-245.html#ixzz1HoC6dK00