. >> suarez: one of the architects of the modern internet, rodney joffe, said this diversion was a verys caused when computer routers in china belonging to china telecom began signaling to other computer routers on the internet that they could provide the quickest path between different computers. >> they, all of a sudden, began announcing the fact that they were an optimal path to about 15% of the destinations on the internet.çç that, in fact, they were a way to get to a large number of destinations on the internet, when, in fact, they were not. we've never seen that on this scale before, ever. >> suarez: joffe is senior vice- president and senior technologist at neustar, a global technology and communications company. he's also a computer security expert who consults for the u.s. government and industry. >> in the grand scheme of things, this was a seminal event. so this wasn't a minor security event, this wasn't a hiccup. 99.9% of the world didn't even think this could be done. engineers didn't even think about it. every one of them is now thinking about it day and night, what the