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China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall
An anonymous reader writes: A new report from The Citizen Lab identifies a distinct new technology entity sitting next to the Great Firewall of China. Dubbed the 'Great Cannon', the multi-process cluster revealed itself quite openly in the recent attacks on Greatfire.org and its two Github pages. The DDoS attack was so sustained that CL was able to study the new technology in depth, determining architectural similarities and unearthing many strong indications that it is a product of the Chinese authorities.
We've seen attack upon attack on various countries by the government of China. These attacks are way beyond simple con jobs for access to government servers or trade secrets.
Why the hell do they have MFN status again?
Okay, I suppose you don't mind we also stop pretending the Five Eyes (especially the USA) and Israel at not in a low level war with any other country? Right?
Other than you saw some other moron on the Internet say 'China Did It' ... can you provide some actual proof to back up your claims.
It is simply stunningly illogical for China to behave this way against such petty targets. It makes absolutely NO sense for them to flaunt their ability and willingness to do so as the simple course of action the entire reset of the world would take is a simple matter of NULL routing China and going on about their daily business, your 'war' would be over before anyone really cared.
And ... a DDoS does pretty much nothing to gain you access to government servers or trade secrets.
WTF is it with you nut jobs who seem to think the entire world is out to get you regardless of cost to themselves?
Slashdot is pretty much the only place on the planet that thinks this is an actual attack by the Chinese, perhaps you should ask yourself why? And no, before you get the idea, its not because slashdot is so smart and so far ahead of the general public, that ended 10 years ago.
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While the attack, is progressing, with all the spoofing going on, why is everyone saying its China? With all the communications chips coming out of China, could it be misidentification? And reading your attack? Since you are trying to penetrate their defenses? Meaning its your spiders reporting back, making requests for service?
I will just say this: The above post is a lie. I can name plenty of examples to show China's aggression.
If people remember a few years back, US solar companies getting breached, or breach attempts in large numbers, all from China. Six months later, China started shipping panels that mysteriously had the same IP as the US PV makers... but for costs well under what even the rare earths went for. This destroyed the US PV industry, and it nearly destroyed Europe's until they enacted a tariff to level the playing field (China will give you deep discounts on rare earths... provided their companies do the manufacturing... companies that you have to give all trade secrets to.)
So, China isn't an angel in any sense of the word. They have been having a lot of border skirmishes with neighbors. They only have MFN because most US companies can't see past next quarter's earnings.
A DDoS makes sense. Same way someone getting their face decorated with a black eye the first time they hit the prison yard... it sends a message.