China at it again

China Firm "Hijacked" Data

     My last blog of the semester will come full circle from my first blog at the beginning of the year.  The article I am writing about today is the charge that a Chinese company, China Telecom, routed about 18 minutes of 15% of all Internet traffic through their servers in April,  including branches of the U.S. armed services, the U.S. Senate and companies like Microsoft.  Of course China denied it, but China Telecom is a state-owned company and China has been known to actively participate in electronic esponiage, especially against the United States.

     This is a good recap for everything we've learned this semester.  The digital economy has propelled our country and the world to a higher standard of living and great, rapid progress.  What we have to remember and realize though, is that whenever you digitize a majority of things in your country and rely on the Internet for normal day-to-day business, there will always be someone out there that wants to steal your information and use it against you.  Whether it be for business or national security.