China’s ‘Great Cannon’: a distinct cyber-superweapon revealed

[Chiefcrowe]

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...man-in-the-middle-weapon-china-used-on-github

 

[John Connor]

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...man-in-the-middle-weapon-china-used-on-github

I have never trusted China or Russia from the jump. It is why I block both countries completely on my site. In fact the website that hosts a PHP anti-spam bot, anti-hack, anti-harvester script I run called ZBblock was targeted by China in a clever way similar to this one. I do use SSL on my site, but the very nature of a forum makes it so that there is mixed unencrypted content. Unless I can find a proxy of some sort to host the images. Then I have the images in signatures too I need to somehow fix.

I see China port scanning my router all the time too! Trying ports 22, 21, 80, 443 just to name a few.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, I read this one yesterday.

Looks they have developed something similar to what the NSA uses and tuned it a bit in a different direction.

It's not distinct from what I've read, just modified.

The gist of it from what I've seen is they intercept information the same way, it's what they do with it afterwards it just a bit different.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Time to kick China off the internet. Persona non grata.

 

[PliotronX]

Time to kick China off the internet. Persona non grata.

That's what they want and why they don't even try to conceal the "great cannon" (aside: I picture a massive DDoS with this name, I would call this more like Stowaway Barge). This all works in the PRC gov't's favor because when the sites standing up for Chinese people shut off access from Chinese users, that in effect censors them for the gov't. Less effort than whack-a-mole tactics. Brilliant.