Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders 181
Trailrunner7 writes "China has long used the Internet's Domain Name Service to censor Web sites and information that the ruling Communist Party deems threatening. But now security experts warn that the government's censorship is in danger of spilling over China's borders, suppressing the ability of those living outside of China to find information online. An estimated 57% of all networks on Earth passed DNS requests through a Chinese DNS rootserver at some point in 2010, according to data from security firm Renesys. Tampering by the Communist Party there poses a danger to Internet security and freedom. In fact, DNS tampering may be a bigger threat than techniques like BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking, which is believed to be responsible for an unexpected shift in Internet routing in April that has recently been the subject of mainstream media reports in the US. There is already evidence that China's efforts to tamper with DNS have bled outside the country's borders. The same report to Congress from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that called attention to the BGP hijacking incident from April, 2010 also mentions a March, 2010 incident in which Internet users in the US and Chile attempted to connect to social networking websites banned by the Chinese government. However, their DNS requests were handled by a Beijing-based Domain Name Server, which responded with incorrect DNS information that directed the surfers to incorrect servers, the report says."
In Soviet China... (Score:2, Funny)
Red vs effing Blue (Score:3, Funny)
(tl;dr version)
Big Threat Internet Security
China censor Web sites and information ruling Communist Party threatening security experts warn government's censorship danger spilling China's suppressing China Chinese Tampering Communist Party danger security and freedom tampering bigger threat hijacking unexpected China's tamper bled
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hijacking incident incident.
(And when I count to three you will awaken and be VERY AFRAID).
Re:So, which is worse? (Score:3, Funny)
Comparing the US and China as far as the Internet goes kind of indicates who the asshat is here.
Re:US DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders (Score:3, Funny)
And the US is just trying to suppress illegal content, while China is actually trying to censor criticism. The latter is IMO much worse.
But, uh, criticisim _is_ 'illegal content' in China.