-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 (Xposting) Listers, A report released by Citizen Lab on Friday shows how the Chinese (or their affiliates) hijacked millions of IPs globally to pull a DDoS on GreatFire - a circumvention, countersurveillance tool - that helps access blocked pages in China. Dubbed the Great Cannon, the tool has been used to bombard two anti-censorship Git pages with junk traffic, but it just as easily could be used to wage stealthy attacks that silently install malware on the computers of unwitting end users. The report compare it to the secret Internet backbone nodes known as Quantum that the National Security Agency and its British counterpart use to conduct targeted surveillance and who knows who else. Main recommmendation: Use of HTTPS and end-to-end could help a great deal to neutralize the man-in-the-middle. Read the full report here: https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVLL52AAoJEP0V0h0VKVUvXjUP/06QBHIcBWJHn0bdKWzIcc8U WId1ER+Er4TqhcPVKmxUltOPQAkQTUKdeRRQLQfsVAl1fJTRWePLJCnO/ZZKaulL oxTebMd6lENAyTbQ5v0Hm7YtJiMn1UQiF7SOAW+35PkEpdrs7gX5aaXnyQncK5eu i1y/vZejr/XuO4zxEXuSHnx1kEnhoLWiPwOhbTlIJb8KFv7LeooIKQuBgPeT8xez 9PIpmk1xOeSDDB2wMLNn1Ug+MTvjKncSW2Fodab2NYQBF0dygbfxEgoqEOgLyrAN tqxR0gUAKNQfnu9QOsMw5lzDVfsbq2/yVW5D55Y/Ty7CO6bAl6ZeqnRyKpM2Yz/N 6nq4rpgld/mA3RHo9kbXyToEoq0fWIn/Iba/rS58TQXKenaC+KRlXscHzNT7tQQX tgthaBHSzzG6VAN4aSr/YHgCM2ZE/Ab0NbiGzs+UPaleyDSs0xbsCm9oq0Jht1ib VWLnUZyfdsqlsLhjtVEPc8DW2793VieJmYqhmHBEbExy/OgjweExIZdU2KTC2PFJ UsNWQpaw50RJBXL6Vc/ErpFA9N+NwOVmF0OOI+E5vFybARKRX2EWXb9W/BEPgeOa iZa1bt594RFo6xqywE8XxBVwNehnYErhvrwylZud1rzLpTR6LxT8KuXvht8DY7bG CMcAp73/w0N/D1EXUMIA =Pe2L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----