CHINA-INTERNAL: CYBER

 The New York Times on April 10, 2015, quoted researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and University of Toronto as saying that China did not use the Great Firewall to insulate their internet but a powerful new weapon which they are calling the 'Great Cannon'. In a report published on April 10, the researchers said that China uses the Great Cannon to intercept foreign web traffic as it flows to Chinese websites, inject malicious code and "repurpose" the traffic as Beijing sees fit. They said on April 8 and 9, 2015, the system was used to intercept web and advertising traffic intended for Baidu — China’s biggest search engine company — and fire it at GitHub, a popular site for programmers, and GreatFire.org, a nonprofit that runs mirror images of sites that are blocked inside China. 


Bill Marczak, a co-author of the report who is a computer science graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley and a research fellow at Citizen Lab., said that "because both, the Great Cannon and Great Firewall, are operating on the same physical link, we believe they are both being run under the same authority.” 
 






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