{"id":1912,"date":"2014-06-29T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2014-06-29T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:51:13","slug":"china-link-alleged-to-cyberattack-as-hong-kong-tensions-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-link-alleged-to-cyberattack-as-hong-kong-tensions-grow","title":{"rendered":"China Link Alleged to Cyberattack as Hong Kong Tensions Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/link-06252014150922.html\/china-hk-democracy-june-2014.jpg\/@@images\/f9c8a755-63a6-4c60-8fbd-d33c0c3f72a0.jpeg\" width=\"622\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police carry out crowd control drills at a local police college in Hong Kong on June 25, 2014 ahead of planned July 1 protests.<!--more--><br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Political tensions continued to build in Hong Kong on Wednesday amid a debate over full democracy and continued judicial independence in the former British colony, ahead of an annual July 1 protest march marking the anniversary of the handover to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions are running high following a series of attacks in Chinese state media on an unofficial referendum on the democratic process, a massive cyberattack on the poll&#8217;s website, and a controversial white paper asserting Beijing&#8217;s ultimate authority over the territory, which was promised &#8220;a high degree of autonomy&#8221; under the terms of its 1997 handover.<\/p>\n<p>More than 740,000 people have cast ballots since the mostly online PopVote poll, which was designed by the University of Hong Kong&#8217;s Public Opinion Programme, opened last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Young Wo-sang, one the poll&#8217;s technological consultants, up to 40 percent of the &#8220;distributed denial of service&#8221; (DDoS) attacks on the PopVote servers have been traced to mainland Chinese companies with offices in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/link-06252014150922.html\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hong Kong police carry out crowd  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-link-alleged-to-cyberattack-as-hong-kong-tensions-grow\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370,110],"tags":[441,317,90,1348],"views":1790,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}