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Title: China's Great Cannon Could Point Anywhere When Next Fuse Is Lit
Post by: HCK on April 17, 2015, 03:00:13 am
China's Great Cannon Could Point Anywhere When Next Fuse Is Lit

China, which censors the Internet with its Great Firewall aka the "Golden Shield," has a new censorship tool that is causing alarm. It's known as the "Great Cannon." The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab identified the tool in a report released last week. The Great Cannon was first used in March, to launch a large-scale DDoS attack on GitHub and GreatFire.org, Citizen Lab said.

Source: China's Great Cannon Could Point Anywhere When Next Fuse Is Lit (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81949.html?rss=1)