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[ NNSquad ] Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming Building
Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming Building
http://j.mp/1dQ7DlQ (New York Times)
"In one of the more bizarre twists in recent Internet memory, much
of the Internet traffic in China was redirected to a mysterious
company in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Tuesday. A large portion of
China's 500 million Internet users were unable to load websites
ending in .com, .net or .org for nearly eight hours in most
regions of China, according to Compuware, a Detroit-based
technology company. The China Internet Network Information
Center, a state-run agency that deals with Internet affairs, said
it had traced the problem to the country's domain name system.
And one of China's biggest antivirus software vendors, Qihoo 360
Technology, said the problems affected roughly three-quarters of
the country's domain name system servers ... routed traffic from
some of China's most popular sites, including Baidu and Sina, to
a block of Internet addresses registered to Sophidea
Incorporated, a mysterious company that - until last year - was
housed on a residential street in Cheyenne, and moved to a
two-story building last year ... That address - which was home to
some 2,000 companies on paper - was the subject of a lengthy 2011
Reuters investigation that found that among the entities
registered to the address were a shell company controlled by a
jailed former Ukraine prime minister; the owner of a company
charged with helping online poker operators evade an Internet
gambling ban; and one entity that was banned from government
contracts after selling counterfeit truck parts to the Pentagon."
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--Lauren--
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