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Google Traffic diverted by Russia / China

         

nomis5

11:37 am on Nov 13, 2018 (gmt 0)

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[dailymail.co.uk...]

Apparently Google is quoted as "it does not believe it was malicious".

The BBC also has an article on this which says the rerouting was a mistake by an African ISP during a software upgrade.

[bbc.co.uk...]

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12:04 pm on Nov 14, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Total time, 74 minutes, and the data was encrypted.

nomis5

9:31 pm on Nov 15, 2018 (gmt 0)

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And we are all 100% certain that neither the Russians nor the Chinese can break the encryption? Count me out of that possibility.
 

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