Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 4, 2006 @05:06AM from the didn't-work-against-the-mongol-spammers-either dept.

Darren Rayes writes to mention a ZDNet article on Cambridge academics' claims that they have breached the great firewall of China. They also claim that by misusing the firewall they can launch DDoS attacks against IP addresses behind the wall. From the article: "The IDS uses a stateless server, which examines each data packet both going in and out of the firewall individually, unrelated to any previous request. By forging the source address of a packet containing a 'sensitive' keyword, people could trigger the firewall to block access between source and destination addresses for up to an hour at a time."

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Re:Solution? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-04 08:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You should look at what the US governments does to its citizens and visitors, and how they brainwashed them into accepting it.

History shows that it is not wise to condemn the behaviour of other governments. What we condemned happening 25 years ago in the GDR and other eastern block countries is considered perfectly normal in western Europe and the USA today.
(routinely tapping the communications of many innocent citizens and keeping elaborate records of their behaviour, like the STASI did)