China's Hacking of the Border Gateway Protocol
This is a long—and somewhat technical—paper by Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China’s repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): “China’s Maxim Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacking.”
BGP hacking is how large intelligence agencies manipulate Internet routing to make certain traffic easier to intercept. The NSA calls it “network shaping” or “traffic shaping.” Here’s a document from the Snowden archives outlining how the technique works with Yemen.
EDITED TO ADD (10/27): Boing Boing post.
me • October 24, 2018 6:51 AM
why don’t we replace it?
it is old and unauthenticaded protocol.
patching is not possible i think, it would be a compatibility nightmare, as patching http to add security is impossible; in fact https works on a differnt port.
if we have done it for http i think it’s possible also for bgp.
the nsa way to avoid legal problems by forcing traffic to leave end reenter usa it’s no sense. and shouldn’t be legal, like the whole mass surveillance