For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic
<i>Internet encryption depends on two keys. One key is private and not shared, and the other is public, and is embedded in most computer operating systems. Unknown to most computer users, Microsoft, Apple and other software makers embed the public certificates in their operating systems. They also trust that this system won’t be abused.</i><p>Umm, yeah, right. Basic fail at understanding public/private key cryptography.<p>If crypto systems relied on trusting that everyone does the right thing, they would be useless.<p>After such a fundamental failure, it's hard to take the rest of the article seriously.