Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China

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."

Comments

Re:Legal action against Cambridge?

[advocate_one]

I was thinking Cambridge, MA (where MIT is located and right next door to Harvard), my bad

perhaps if you'd RTFA, you wouldn't have made such a stupidly ignorant post...

Still, they should be ashamed of themselves for helping China - England claims to value freedom as well IIRC.

yes, I'm pretty peeved with them as well... a friend of mine went up to Cambridge last year... I shall ask him to raise the issue with the Student Union...

Re:Congratulations

[TACNailed]

I'm sure Cisco will be happy to help them out. Again.