Pentagon data diverted to Chinese servers

And the CIA is worried about WikiLeaks what a joke me thinks.

Another bloggers words quite funny if you think about it:  Say the Chinese turned on their call home protocol, and all the Chinese made modems, routers, ect called home. You know that at least some of the electronics used in the Pentagon and elsewhere originated from China!

By ABC North America correspondent Lisa Millar
The United States has revealed the details of a startling breakdown in cyber security in April, when 15 per cent of the world's internet traffic was diverted through China.
Experts describe it as one of the biggest redirections of internet data they have ever seen.
For 18 minutes on April 8, emails and internet material sent from the Pentagon and NASA were re-routed via Chinese servers.
A US government report blames China Telecom, but does not say why it might have happened or whether it was done intentionally.
But experts say it is a sign of the security risks ahead.
The Heritage Foundation's Dean Cheng, who specialises in Chinese political and security affairs, says a lot of data may have been accessed by China.
"There are instances where situations are not necessarily the deliberate result of government decisions, but that doesn't make them an accident," he said.
"Particularly when you are talking about 15 per cent of the global internet traffic.
"If it had been going on for a few minutes, that would be one thing as servers simply got overwhelmed.
"That it went on for so long would suggest that that's a lot of data that could be scooped up."
Mr Cheng is convinced a lot of that data has now been archived in China and is slowly being studied.
He says even the encrypted material would eventually be broken down.
Australia threatened
Dale Meyerrose, a former chief information officer for the director of national intelligence, says this is a serious threat.
"What we're seeing here is a technique that may have in fact ... have been a cover for something else," he said.
"In my 35 years of dealing with this, there's an intended consequence and a series of unintended consequences and I think they always play out in these sorts of things."
Mr Cheng says it is not just a US problem.
"It's not simply American information that has been made vulnerable, but that of our allies, including Australia."
China has denied it hijacked the internet but the incident has added to global concerns about cyber security.
US defence secretary Robert Gates this week described potential attacks as a huge future threat and a considerable current threat.

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