{"id":4977,"date":"2015-04-11T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2015-04-12T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T03:14:20","slug":"china-deploys-new-online-weapon-in-internet-censorship-game-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-deploys-new-online-weapon-in-internet-censorship-game-report","title":{"rendered":"China Deploys New Online Weapon in Internet Censorship Game: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2015-04-10<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/8a4bb71f-a723-4503-8aee-ba7bbbc3f125.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/8a4bb71f-a723-4503-8aee-ba7bbbc3f125-300x194.jpeg\" alt=\"8a4bb71f-a723-4503-8aee-ba7bbbc3f125\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/8a4bb71f-a723-4503-8aee-ba7bbbc3f125-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/8a4bb71f-a723-4503-8aee-ba7bbbc3f125.jpeg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.<br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n<p>China has added a powerful new weapon in its battle to control what its users see online, adding the &#8220;Great Cannon&#8221; to its existing arsenal of blocks, filters and human censorship known <!--more-->collectively as the Great Firewall, a new report said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto, the report analyzes in technical detail exactly how a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on anti-censorship site GreatFire.org and coding website GitHub unfolded earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s &#8216;Great Cannon&#8217; [is] our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The operational deployment of the Great Cannon represents a significant escalation in state-level information control: the normalization of widespread use of an attack tool to enforce censorship by weaponizing users,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the attack on GitHub and GreatFire.org is the first known usage of the Great Cannon.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the sites, which both hosted tools to users wishing to circumvent Chinese Internet censorship, was carried out by &#8220;a distinct attack tool that hijacks traffic to (or presumably from) individual IP addresses, and can arbitrarily replace unencrypted content as a man-in-the-middle,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cannon works by silently programming the browsers of users outside China to create a massive DDoS attack.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/weapon-04102015110520.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015-04-10 A man surfs the Internet at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-deploys-new-online-weapon-in-internet-censorship-game-report\">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":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[37,1343,1348],"views":4847,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"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=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}