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7. And, realize that anything stored on "the cloud" could end up in Russia, or China...

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:49 PM

Apr 2019

"For two hours Monday, internet traffic that was supposed to route through Google's Cloud Platform instead found itself in quite unexpected places, including Russia and China."

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"ThousandEyes saw Google traffic rerouting over the Russian ISP TransTelecom, to China Telecom, toward the Nigerian ISP Main One. "Russia, China, and Nigeria ISPs and 150-plus [IP address] prefixes—this is obviously very suspicious," says Alex Henthorne-Iwane, vice-president of product marketing at ThousandEyes. "It doesn’t look like a mistake.""

One of the reasons I won't use cloud storage.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/google-internet-traffic-china-russia-rerouted/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/google-internet-traffic-china-russia-rerouted/amp

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Need a resource to explain 'the cloud.' [View all] LAS14 Apr 2019 OP

you can try this quickesst Apr 2019 #1

Thanks so much! One of these has got to be the ticket. nt LAS14 Apr 2019 #2

from doing a brake job on a specific car.... quickesst Apr 2019 #5

it's......someone else's computer Skittles Apr 2019 #3

Let me try to just explain it simply better Apr 2019 #4

Well first off... better Apr 2019 #8

Thanks. So... LAS14 Apr 2019 #10

Super helpful. Thanks. So... LAS14 Apr 2019 #13

Well, you can create folders. Is that what you mean? (nt) better Apr 2019 #14

That's conditionally true. better Apr 2019 #9