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Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Legal action against Cambridge? by zanderredux · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Isn't Cambridge deliberately creating an opportunity for the Chinese government to prosecute them?

    What about those inside China using those exploits for legitimate ends?

    Is Cambridge indirectly helping the Chinese government to fix firewall issues?

    Are Cambridge researchers after fame at the expense of the freedom of the Chinese people?

  2. National Security by subl33t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go ahead, mod me down.

    Couldn't the Chinese government view this as an act of terrorism? In the interest of national security the Chinese government will start an ambiguous "War on Terror" after the the US "War on Terror" and "War on Drugs" which are _also_ unwinnable and declared solely to keep the ruling party in power via fear.