FILE – China’s top search engine, Baidu is seen on a laptop screen.
Shannon Van Sant
April 22, 2015 1:13 PM
HONG KONG—China has long censored the internet with its so-called “Great Firewall.” But now researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Continue reading
Chinese Cyber Tool Poses Risks for Chinese Firms已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
April 10, 2015
This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The first known usage of the Great Cannon is in the recent large-scale novel DDoS attack on both GitHub and servers used by GreatFire.org.
Authors: Bill Marczak1,2,3 (Lead), Nicholas Weaver2,3 (Lead), Jakub Dalek,1 Roya Ensafi,4 David Fifield,2 Sarah McKune,1 Arn Rey, John Scott-Railton,1 Ronald Deibert,1 Vern Paxson.2,3 Continue reading
2015-04-10
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
China has added a powerful new weapon in its battle to control what its users see online, adding the “Great Cannon” to its existing arsenal of blocks, filters and human censorship known Continue reading
China Deploys New Online Weapon in Internet Censorship Game: Report已关闭评论
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By PAUL MOZUR April 02, 2015
One of the world’s great coding libraries is safe, for now.
As of Tuesday, GitHub, a site that hosts code for programmers, said that a major attack that seemed to come from the Chinese government had subsided.
For the last week, GitHub had been overwhelmed by traffic that security experts said originated from China’s Great Firewall. Continue reading
China Blamed for 5-Day Attack on Coding Site GitHub已关闭评论
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By Andrea Peterson March 30
A nonprofit group developing tools to get around Chinese online censorship says the Chinese government is behind a recent attack that sent a flood of traffic to its site and services. Continue reading
China has weaponized the Great Firewall, says a free-speech group已关闭评论
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By PATRICK BOEHLER April 01, 2015
In recent months, China’s Internet regulators have further restricted the already limited access that the nation’s 648 million Internet users have to the web. Several Google services, including Gmail and Gchat, have become inaccessible. Virtual private networks, Continue reading
Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China已关闭评论
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3/04/2015 @ 9:36PM
Pro-Beijing rally in Hong Kong. Photo: Johan Nylander .
Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, Chinese netizens have seen their rights to write, read and interact online diminish gradually. Continue reading
For China, Open Internet May Not Mean Diminished Patriotism已关闭评论
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Q: When taking an interview, US President Obama said that he was concerned about information security mentioned in China’s draft counter-terrorism law, and asked China to adjust relevant contents. What is China’s response?
A: As an important step to govern the country according to law, Continue reading
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Regular Press Conference on March 3, 2015已关闭评论
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