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.

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Re:Can we stop pretending this isn't low level war

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you.