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I've wondered about this, in the years since. Does anyone else have a sense of what (if any) pragmatic technical steps could effectively deter or neuter this t
by abathur 7y ago
I've wondered about this, in the years since.
Does anyone else have a sense of what (if any) pragmatic technical steps could effectively deter or neuter this tactic?
If the network can't demonstrate the ability to at least pump the brakes on this, it's hard to imagine other states or even the owners of large safe-monopoly ISPs won't get a little jealous of the tool.
- revicon 7y agoBlock all traffic from China?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoA Hong Kong protest forum becoming inaccessible to Chinese users is the entire objective of the DDoS in the first place.
- olodus 7y agoIf you are a site aimed at people in Hong Kong (or elsewhere in China), that is not very helpful.
- gruez 7y agoCollateral damage aside, that doesn't really solve the issue. The attack goes something like this: 1. non-chinese user visits a chinese site 2. the traffic goes through the gfw, which inserts malicious javascript 3. the user executes the malicious javascript and starts ddosing the victim site Blocking chinese users won't help, since non-chinese visitors will still ddos your site.
- alfalfasprout 7y agoIf China is cut off, then people can't download the malicious JS either. Granted, it sets a pretty bad precedent and would have massive economic consequences.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoCentralize behind Cloudflare like everyone else.