Internet routing tables are becoming a bigger concern for federal cybersecurity experts, as in recent weeks the protocol for internet routers appears to have been hacked. Traffic from some leading U.S. businesses and government agencies has been re-routed through China.

A chief technologist with Neustar says part of the problem is that the Border Gateway Protocol the routers use doesn’t require contractual relationships between routers, leading to a structure based on unconfirmed agreements.

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