Forbes | March 24, 2011 | Andy Greenberg
If you were visiting Facebook over AT&T’s network earlier this week, your bits may have taken a mysterious path to the site’s Silicon Valley servers: one that took them through Korea and China. And if you weren’t using an encrypted HTTPS connection to browse the site, a few Chinese bureaucrats may have had a complete look through your party updates and pet photos.
Cybersecurity researcher Barrett Lyon, who has focused on mapping the Internet and its paths, wrote on his blog Tuesday that traffic to Facebook on AT&T’s network Tuesday morning traveled through Chinanet–the Internet provider division of China Telecom–and then on to the Korean ISP SK Broadband before traversing the Pacific Ocean back to Facebook. “This means that anything you looked at via Facebook without encryption was exposed to anyone operating Chinanet, which has a very suspect modus operandi,” Lyon writes.
…..
