It is suggested in the Hacker News guidelines that one does not editorialize the title of an article. The actual title of this Wikipedia article is "Hong Kong Internet Exchange."
Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
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Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#12Most US outlets are not reporting on this part of the story of the siege of CUHK university. If the police seize control of the university, they can monitor / filter all traffic. The whole city can go dark.
"If the police seize control of the university, they can monitor / filter all traffic. The whole city can go dark."
I don't think that is true at all - at least not for the last 15 years.
Almost everyone co-located in HK is in a totally different physical location than the University (such as iAdvantage or HKCOLO, near LOHAS Park) and have independent connections outbound to the world.
We, for instance, are physically located inside HKCOLO and have a direct connection to he.net in Fremont, CA. If you traceroute rsync.net in Hong Kong, you typically don't leave he.net.
I'm not sure how seizure (or even shutdown) of the University would affect infrastructure at iAdvantage or HKCOLO or Dyxian, etc.
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#13Where is this conspiracy theory-level kind of news coming from? And who is making this correlation?
Some articles (not in english) https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%... https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html
My god, what are we spreading here? This is pure conspiracy theory through "news" sources that have highly dubious credentials.
HN shouldn't be fueling this kind of unsubstantiated speculation.
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#14It is suggested in the Hacker News guidelines that one does not editorialize the title of an article. The actual title of this Wikipedia article is "Hong Kong Internet Exchange."
True, but this seems like a reasonable exception, in that it provides context as to why post the link now.
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#15It is suggested in the Hacker News guidelines that one does not editorialize the title of an article. The actual title of this Wikipedia article is "Hong Kong Internet Exchange."
True, but this seems like a reasonable exception, in that it provides context as to why post the link now.
I haven't found anything about police in the article.
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#16If HK goes dark, will SpaceX Starlink/Google Loon deploy in the area?
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#17I wouldn't be surprised if the domestic HK security services haven't already sunk their claws deep into this organization... Pretty much every pipe is being tapped in western countries and I'm sure in Asia too.
Of course explicitly controlling it and manipulating it is a bit different.
This is probably a better article than the Wikipedia:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1269773/hong-kon...
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
So please add a link or 2 that does talk about the story? The wikipedia link just describes the infrastructure.
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%... https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html
Who are you, and why are you seeming to post these sources multiple times?
This is pure conspiracy theory through "news" sources that have highly dubious credentials.
HN shouldn't be fueling this kind of unsubstantiated speculation.
Re: Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
#19The linked wiki page has nothing to do with the title.
Some articles (not in english) https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%... https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html
Who are you, and why are you seeming to post these sources multiple times?
This is pure conspiracy theory through "news" sources that have highly dubious credentials.
HN shouldn't be fueling this kind of unsubstantiated speculation.