U.S. Facebook Traffic Detoured Through China
A sizable amount of network traffic including Facebook surfers was re-routed from an AT&T line in the U.S. through Chinanet. Some believe this was a deliberate rerouting by the Chinese government, which has blocked its citizens from accessing the social network for about two years.
A few days ago, security blogger Barret Lyon noted that a sizable amount of network traffic, including Facebook usage, was re-routed from an AT&T line in the U.S. through Chinanet. Lyon asserted that the re-routing was an accident, but other security experts believe that it was a deliberate re-routing by the Chinese government, which has blocked its citizens from accessing Facebook for several years.
“It’s real. It is happening. It can’t be described as an ‘accident’ anymore,” Rodney Joffe, senior technologist at Domain Name Registrar Neustar, who observed similar traffic snafus involving China last year, said in an e-mail to CNET.
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