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The ‘Great Cannon’: How China Turns Its Websites Into Cyber Weapons
When anti-Chinese censorship services got hit with a crippling distributed-denial-of-service attack last month, researchers quickly pegged China as the culprit. Now, Citizen Lab has pinpointed the Chinese tool that made this attack happen. They’re calling it the Great Cannon.
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Is Your Suburb Being Switched Over To The NBN Next Week?
Despite its various twists and turns over the years, the implementation of the National Broadband Network continues unabated. In fact, a number of NSW residents will find themselves disconnected from good old copper network next week as services are migrated to the new infrastructure.
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10 Episodes Of Doctor Who Released On BitTorrent… By The BBC
The BBC has been very accommodating when it comes to providing access to the very latest in Doctor Who content. But how about the not-so-new? Turns out the broadcaster is more than happy to embrace the internet’s strengths: it has made available 10 episodes of the most recent season via BitTorrent.
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Who On Earth Would Attack Github For Its Anti-Great Firewall Projects?
Github is getting hammered by a huge distributed-denial-of-service attack. Looks like it pissed off the wrong pro-censorship group: The attack is aimed at two popular projects, Great Fire and CN-NY Times, that help Chinese citizens get around their government’s restrictive online censors to access blocked content.