Sophidea
Sophidea Incorporated is a company that is located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company provides buffer against national firewalls and the company's IP addresses became the location of most of China's internet traffic, when censors briefly directed most of the nation's traffic to sites that the company owned.[1] The registered agent for the company is Wyoming Corporate Services, which is the registered agent for 8,000 businesses. The company's former headquarters, which was once located on a residential street, was subject to a 2011 investigation by Reuters reporters detailing the company working with jailed Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Sorokanich, Robert (22 January 2014). "Most of China's Web Traffic Wound Up at a Tiny Wyoming House Yesterday". Gizmodo. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Perlroth, Nicole (22 January 2014). "Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming House". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Carr, Kellie; Crow, Brian (28 June 2011). "Special Report: A little house of secrets on the Great Plains". Reuters. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
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