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China's .cn Domain Servers Suffer DDoS Attack
jfruh writes "For years, DDoS attacks on various websites have been routinely launched by hackers within China. Now an attack of this sort has been launched against the foundations of the Chinese Internet — the domain servers for the country's top-level .cn domain. The attack raged over the weekend, disrupting and slowing access to .cn sites."
Good strategy to throttle spam ;)
Really, are we stooping to that level of journalism?
Not to fan the flames but it was about time they got a little dose of their own medicine.
The problem is that there are too many people who don't care or know that their computers are in bot nets and there are tensions about hacking each other in the air. I'm guessing that this is some group of people trying to start something larger. It would be good to tone it down a bit, as this kind of thing mostly hurts countries whose economies are tied to the Internet.
The internet as we know it today is clearly fragmenting. China's .cn domain is restricted and regulated up the wazoo. You have to have a legitimate registered company to get a .cn domain, and even after you do, you have to register with the government and display an ICP certificate on your front page. The government gives you an encrypted .cert file to place on your site which will be periodically verified by a web crawler bot (bazs.cert). Websites (even non .cn domains) without such authentication will eventually be blocked.
This clearly separates .cn from the rest of the internet. Moreover, most of China has no interest in the foreign-language internet, and most of the rest of the world has no interest in Chinese language content. So it makes sense that eventually the split will become official. Of course China will trumpet this as their own independent innovation (China strong!) and overthrowing the Western oppression capiDUHlism and whatever crap they need to spout to blame the foreigners and distract their population from the daily crimes of the CCP. You already can't go to an internet cafe without showing ID, and this has been used repeatedly along with CCTV footage to identify and imprison the foes of the Party.
I just can't wait for the TVs that watch you to become mandatory...for social stability, of course. Of course, it's hard to argue with the Party as China is a country where the smart people really are in charge. If any of you ever wondered what it would be like if democracy was repealed and scientists and engineers got to run things without interference from those smelly common people, look no farther than China.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
as a white guy i prefer to only read the "good" part of history. ;)
seriously though there's too much racism and manipulative politicians.
They should treat infected computers the same way they treat infected people.
With quarantines.
If you've got some sort of disease, the health police get to confine you. Even if it's not your fault you got sick, because the quarantine is to protect the public, which is why your freedom to go as you please is subordinate to the public's freedom not to catch your germs.
They should treat infected computers the same way. It doesn't matter if it's your fault it got infected or not. If your computer is putting the internet at risk, it should be quarantined. I don't care if the user of the computer is inconvenienced or if it's not his fault. He is harming the internet just the same.
If you defiantly refuse to care or fix it, you should be hit even harder, because at that point you're effectively aiding and abetting whatever criminal activity the hacker is using your computer for.
If I was an ISP and a customer failed to have their computer cleaned up after I warned them, I would terminate their access for abuse. Once they know and refuse to take care of it, they are complicit.
Oh that's right US domestic justice and foreign policy is totes about equal treatment for all.
Someone in China got my web sites suspended last week when they started scraping my photography web site. I guess I'd better hide those PayPal and Western Union receipts for payments that I made to the Ukraine.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
I really like the idea, but I am concerned that it could be used to censor people. Fraudulent DMCA take-down notices can hurt people, and if they make it automated enough to tackle large botnets, it makes it more dangerous. We would need an assurance that the traffic was not being spoofed somehow and not just to remove voices from the internet.
You are using an antiquated early 20th century practice for your analogy. It was found that driving the vulnerable community underground with draconian quarantine practice is counterproductive.
Yeah. Current practice is to just throw it away and buy a new one. This's immeasurably improved the situation for everyone affected.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Are there any stats on how much the global traffic of spam as well as malware access dropped during the DDoS attack?
They should treat infected computers the same way they treat infected people.
tell them if they can't afford help they should wait until it gets bad enough to go to the emergency room?
They're confirmed to be spying on everyone around the world, so it's totally reasonable to suspect them of doing this too, with no evidence whatsoever except circumstantial talk and random speculation? Am I doing this right?
Of course the article starts with accusing China of hacking. Western hypocrisy never ends, even Snowden's devastating revelations couldn't derail you hypocrites on your anti-China hate train.
Antiquated but effective nonetheless. Underground is exactly where it belongs anyway.