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If we assume good faith, then they’re not committing espionage, they’re just incompetent to an extreme. Why then should we take the Chinese telecom industry ser
by gnu8 7y ago
If we assume good faith, then they’re not committing espionage, they’re just incompetent to an extreme. Why then should we take the Chinese telecom industry seriously?
- iforgotpassword 7y agoIt was a Swiss company making a config error on their side, how is this incompetence on the Chinese end? One thing you could criticize them for is that they're one of the few larger ones that still don't use MANRS, which is most likely since they use BGP spoofing domestically for censorship.
- CodiePetersen 7y agoI recall reading that BGP leaks are common but most ISPs take steps from propagating them within a few seconds to minutes. The two hours is the incompetence I think he is referring to.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoHow do we know it wasn’t a Chinese agent inside a Swiss company making the “error”?
- iforgotpassword 7y agoHow do we know it wasn't a US agent disguised as a Chinese agent inside the Swiss company making the error?
- sonnyblarney 7y ago"But instead of ignoring the BGP leak, China Telecom re-announced Safe Host's routes as its own, and by doing so, interposed itself as one of the shortest ways to reach Safe Host's network and other nearby European telcos and ISPs." This is not 'good faith'. This is the Swiss leaving their doors unlocked by accident and China walking in and taking a few pictures, purposefully.