So the latest news from behind the Great Firewall of China is that they plan to crack down on all unapproved Darknet VPN services. This means all VPN providers, cloud service providers and ISPs will have to seek an annually renewed licence to operate a VPN Service. Really, not very surprising coming out of China […]
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DNS DDoS Attack Takes Down China Internet
[ad] The latest news is a few million Chinese Internet users had trouble accessing any websites yesterday due to a DDoS attack on the DNS system from one of the countries registrars. It just shows that China has an inherently weak infrastructure if such a large portion of people can be disrupted with an attack […]
China Outlaws Private E-mail Servers
Ah China, always been famous for repressing their population, now there repression is moving onto the Internet and using digital means.. Just like the so called ‘Great Firewall of China’, I’ve been meaning to do an article about that for quite some time, I have something drafted. Anyway the latest thing China has done has […]
Amnesty International Irrepresible Internet Campaign
[ad] Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control. Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information. The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments “with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world” are cracking […]
China taking control of it’s own DNS servers
[ad] China are moving further away from the rest of the world when it comes to the Internet, taking control, making sure information doesn’t get out and making sure other people don’t have access to anything behind the Great Firewall of China. China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has made adjustment to China’s Internet domain […]