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How many times does this have to happen before China's privileges to do things like this get revoked? At this point, it can't be just a mistake and must be some state-sponsored hacking. Seems like a great way to find out where a particular Spotify user's IP address is.
What are you going to do? Divide the internet in half? I say that in a joking way but it’s a possibility.
Hi all - Seth from Google here. Our team is aware and we are working on mitigation. In short, a third party telco provider is advertising on one of our IP blocks. Unfortunately that's all the information I can share at this time.
EDIT: This is a general statement, I am not complaining to google here. This kind of thing should not be possible. Are there any protocol proposals or other kind of upgrades to the routing protocols that would prevent these kind of mistakes/attacks?
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How many times does this have to happen before China's privileges to do things like this get revoked? At this point, it can't be just a mistake and must be some state-sponsored hacking. Seems like a great way to find out where a particular Spotify user's IP address is.
What are you going to do? Divide the internet in half? I say that in a joking way but it’s a possibility.
Reading through the comments here I'm recognizing "China Telecom" from an article on a BGP hijack that was published about a week ago, I still had the article open in my browser: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/stran... In another comment in this thread I read: > Seems like its time to start or accelerate a working group on secure BGP. Indeed things can't go on like this for much longer...
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EDIT: This is a general statement, I am not complaining to google here. This kind of thing should not be possible. Are there any protocol proposals or other kind of upgrades to the routing protocols that would prevent these kind of mistakes/attacks?
I am surprised how fragile is the internet given how our society is increasingly becoming critically reliant on it.
It's if the internet doesn't like all that centralization with all that market domination. It's naturally resilient only when there is a lot of competition.
Despite the subdomain, the IP for ChinaTelecom-gw.transtelecom.net (217.150.59.249) seems to be based in Russia, as does the carrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransTelekom
Seems likely to be TT's gateway to CT. New theory: TransTelecom brought up a new gateway to ChinaTelecom, which incorrectly gossiped all advertisements from ChinaTelecom. This caused a leak, since CT has bgp highjacking of Google IP ranges for the GFW within China, but ordinarily doesn't leak them outside the country. TransTelecom misconfigured the gateway to broadcast everything advertised by ChinaTelecom, bringing…
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What are you going to do? Divide the internet in half? I say that in a joking way but it’s a possibility.
You don’t need to cut the internet in half to limit China to routing IP adresses that are allocated to China.
Google IPs seem to be being routed to China for us. We have servers in San Jose that cannot access Google services. Trace route shows everything going to China when leaving the San Jose data center. We can access the same services from Vancouver just fine.