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I seem to remember a thing china did 10 years back where they injected JavaScript into every web request that went through their Great Firewall to target GitHub
by ninkendo 2y ago
I seem to remember a thing china did 10 years back where they injected JavaScript into every web request that went through their Great Firewall to target GitHub… I think it’s known as the “Great Cannon” because they can basically make every Chinese internet user’s browser hit your website in a DoS attack.
Digging it up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/04/10/china-escalates-censorship-efforts-with-debut-of-offensive-cyber-weapon-researchers-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/04/10...
- luckylion 2y agoWow, that had passed me by completely, thanks for sharing! Very similar indeed. The attacks I witnessed where easy to block once you identified the patterns (referrer was visible and they used predictable ?_=... query parameters to try and bypass caches), but very effective otherwise. I suppose in the event of a hot war, the Internet will be cut quickly to defend against things like the "Great Cannon".