"Did China's government really redivert 15% of the Internet's traffic for eighteen minutes in April, effortlessly intercepting sensitive traffic in flight, and generally creating a massively embarassing man-in-the-middle attack on vulnerable global communications? Well, yes and no. Mostly no."
Sober take on the "China took over the internet for 18 minutes" thing from April 2010
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