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China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts
New submitter DemonOnIce writes: According to The Verge and an original report from the site that monitor's China's Great Firewall activity, China is conducting a large-scale attack on iCloud and Microsoft accounts using its government firewall software. Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise as they are directed to a dummy site designed to look like an Apple login page (or a Microsoft one, as appropriate).
If you use Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or IE in China, they will all warn you that MiTM attack has occurred (if you trying going to https://icloud.com./ But the most popular browser used in China (according to Qihoo, the claim is dubious), Qihoo’s Chinese 360 "Secure Browser". will allow Man in the middle attacks to occur, by design.
It's almost like they are a... communist country.
THL phish sticks
Are the Chinese officials trying to score some celebrity porn?
It's possibly related to the protests in Hong Kong and the government's desire to identify the leaders/participants.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
It's almost like they are a... communist country.
Right -- only a communist country would attempt such shenanigans. Western democracies are totally above that sort of misbehavior. ;^)
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Well, close. I wouldn't technically call it a dictatorship because the power is spread out around various people and groups, including the Standing Committee, former members of the Standing Committee and the military. But you're on the right track. 1) China is communist only in name. 2) Even if they were fully communist, that's an economic system, not a political one per se. The word that you and the grandparent poster is looking for is 'authoritarian.' BTW I lived in China for three and a half years and IMO they are getting the government they deserve. Freedom, truth, and Classical Liberal ideals are not high on their list of values.
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So how many times has the NSA done the same thing? oh that's right the NSA merely forces Cisco to install hardware that lets them monitor such connections.
The NSA has done far far worse to Americans, let alone everyone else in the world. China at least primarily limits it's attempts to it's own citizens.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
The BBC reported today: "The Beijing-appointed leader of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, said Monday evening that it was unacceptable to allow his successors to be chosen in open elections, in part because doing so would risk giving poorer residents a dominant voice in politics... he backed Beijingâ(TM)s position that all candidates to succeed him as chief executive, the top post in the city, must be screened by a âoebroadly representativeâ nominating committee appointed by Beijing. That screening, he said, would insulate candidates from popular pressure to create a welfare state, and would allow the city government to follow more business-friendly policies to address economic inequality instead."
Whatever it is, it doesn't sound like communism to me.
It's probably better described as fascism, but there has never been a place on earth where communism in practice resembled communism in theory. It's not possible to ever implement it, because the power hungry use it as a method for personal enrichment. As Lord Acton said "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.