NATO Report Warns of New Authoritarian Chinese Splinternet

NATO Report Warns of New Authoritarian Chinese Splinternet

Chinese government plans to push through standardization of a new internet architecture could broaden the threat landscape, destabilize security and privacy, and fragment the world wide web, a new NATO report seen by Infosecurity will warn.



First proposed at the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) last September, the plans call for a replacement to the current TCP/IP model, dubbed “New IP.” They’re being led by Huawei, China’s state-run telcos and the government itself.



Published by the FT, the plans claimed that TCP/IP is broken, incapable of supporting IoT advances, space-terrestrial communications and other innovations coming down the line, such as holographic comms. 



It also points to security vulnerabilities in the current model and claimed its “ubiquitous, universal and better protocolled system” would provide improved security and trust for the internet.



However, an upcoming report from Oxford Innovation Labs (Oxil) for NATO is extremely apprehensive of the plans. China is effectively “creating a perception of necessity” for its new model when in fact TCP/IP is far from completely broken — in fact, it has adapted consistently well to everything thrown at it over the years, it says.



Even worse, the New IP model for a decentralized internet infrastructure (DII) will undermine security and embed “fine-grained controls in the foundations of the network” — ultimately putting more control into the hands of the ISPs.



“New IP would centralize control over the network into the hands of telecoms operators, all of which are either state run or state-controlled in China,” the report authors told I ..

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