[kictanet] How China Deployed a DDoS against GreatFire

[Moses Karanja]

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Listers,

A report released by Citizen Lab on Friday shows how the Chinese (or
their affiliates) hijacked millions of IPs globally to pull a DDoS on
GreatFire - a circumvention, countersurveillance tool - that helps
access blocked pages in China.

Dubbed the Great Cannon, the tool has been used to bombard two
anti-censorship Git pages with junk traffic, but it just as easily
could be used to wage stealthy attacks that silently install malware
on the computers of unwitting end users.

The report compare it to the secret Internet backbone nodes known as
Quantum that the National Security Agency and its British counterpart
use to conduct targeted surveillance and who knows who else.

Main recommmendation: Use of HTTPS and end-to-end could help a great
deal to neutralize the man-in-the-middle.

Read the full report here:
https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/

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