China Telecom sent incorrect routing information last April that resulted in Internet traffic to major corporate websites and U.S. military and government sites being sent through China for 18 minutes, according to a report by a congressional advisory group.

The incident was one of several discussed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Reuters obtained a copy of the draft report, which will formally be released on Wednesday.

In the hijacking incident, the Web traffic, much of which originated in the United States and was directed toward U.S. corporate and government websites, should have gone the shortest available route and not through China.

Some of the traffic was headed to sites owned by the U.S. Senate, the office of the secretary of defense, NASA and the Commerce Department, the draft said.

The commission said it was unclear whether the hijacking was intentional or whether any data was collected or stopped, or if the massive amount of data affected concealed a targeted attack.

"Evidence related to this incident does not clearly indicate whether it was perpetrated intentionally and, if so, to what ends. However, computer security researchers have noted that the capability could enable severe malicious activities," the report said.

...it maybe inappropriate for me to say...but:

...and they worry about Google docs?!?!?! :/

So their data went on a little holiday for 18 minutes back in April...we all need a holiday sometimes :)

Sylvestor

CERN experiments create and trap particles of anti-matter * 38 anti-hydrogen atoms trapped for long enough to study GENEVA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Physicists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on Wednesday they have created and trapped anti-matter, one of the biggest mysteries of modern science.

Star Trek - here we come!

It doesn't like that big a deal, but the ability to harness 'antimatter' must be a massive step forward in science. And they have to start somewhere, and 38 atoms is definitely a start!

The potential future of these sorts of discoveries can easily change the way the world is and can be...interesting stuff.

Sylvestor

Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.

And as their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva moves into high gear, they are talking increasingly of the "New Physics" on the horizon that could totally change current views of the universe and how it works.

"Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions... These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments."

Its the quark-gluon plasma that makes it all worthwhile ;)

Who really cares about 'gay marriage' when we are on the brink of new dimensions! Literally! ;)

Sylvestor

(edit: added link to 'gay marriage' post)