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Q: Could someone explain in layman's terms just what this "great cannon" is?

Hi folks, hope you're all well.

 

I'm not an IT type, so if those of you who can help me to understand this new piece of wankery in comparion to the existing firewall are prepared to give it a go, your help is much appreciated.

 

Presumably it took some time to devise and implement so the latest investigation into the leadership's ties with Wanda can't be the only factor involved. Is this a rush job?

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I doubt the cannon can actually do what is claimed. Denial of Service attacks, sure, but a teenager with one hand down his pants can pull that sort of thing off. 

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I hope the pun was intended given I described the project as an act of wankery.

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You can check for instance following link for detailed description:

https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/

 

Basically it can disrupt the service of any web server, deliver malware to any IP communicating with Chinese (or exploited) servers.

 

Above link uses relatively simple explanation (followed by very scientific analysis)  saying that Great Cannon is:

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distinct attack tool that hijacks traffic to (or presumably from) individual IP addresses, and can arbitrarily replace unencrypted content as a man-in-the-middle.

 

Specifically, the Cannon manipulates the traffic of “bystander” systems outside China, silently programming their browsers to create a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.  While employed for a highly visible attack in this case, the Great Cannon clearly has the capability for use in a manner similar to the NSA’s QUANTUM system, affording China the opportunity to deliver exploits targeting any foreign computer that communicates with any China-based website not fully utilizing HTTPS.

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ambivalentmace:

the problem with the cannon is the dark internet with hackers that have no loyalty to any government. when this pisses them off, china's golden goose is cooked, gonna be a great show to watch.they think they know everything but they havent scratched the surface of what hackers can really do.

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@ambivalentmace

 

How so?

 

Thanks gouxiong, I have read those articles about how it works, but I'm still not clear on who devised it, why it was implemented and how it works - it's design, defects etc.

 

 

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https://www.hackread.com/china-great-cannon-blocks-websites/

 

edward snowden has helped promote the ccp ideology, may he one day meet his maker in a terrible painful death

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@ambi: So, all foreigners in China can enjoy 'un-restricted' Internet? Let him die.....fast!????

'Everybody will eventually meet his/her maker.....', butT.......

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-imperialism-wages-permanent-warfare-to-prevent-its-inevitable-collapse/5446533

 

Just as Ed Snowden’s revelations didn’t stop the FBI from-usa-fbi-terrorism-prosecutions continuing to create the so-called terrorist attacks in the US as justification for a massive surveillance state, so too does US imperialism continue its worldwide march to war despite the geopolitical shift against it.

 

''Ohhh, butT..I'm an 'merican'...good for you, and even better for me, I'm not!

What it should bother you is 'Up-yours' revealed fragrant violations of the highest US Law by the Gov.! ButT...it doesn't bother you!? Are you 'on duty' in China?''

Talking about 'ridiculous Law&Justice':

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/freddie-gray-six-police-charged-over-baltimore-death-are-released-on-bail

All six police officers charged over the death of 25 year-old Freddie Gray have been released on bail

Protesters celebrate the charges in troubled US city despite anger that the officers’ bail amount is less than that handed to those arrested for rioting

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'Great cannon' diverts traffic from website in Q to DDoS or a spoof link, as Wpkg (through Javascript, appl. included in all Windows puters). It also targets website, which successfully bypass 'Great Firewall' through VPNs. It's dubbed 'Man-in-the-Middle-Attack'. 

 

Here is some detailed explanation of 'spoof':

 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2908504/the-great-cannon-of-china-e...

 

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/10/china-great-cannon/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/13/great-cannon-china-int...

 

The first use of the Great Cannon came in late March, when the coding site GitHub was flooded by traffic leaving it intermittently unresponsive for multiple days. The attack, using a method called “distributed denial of service” or DDoS, appeared to be targeting two specific users of the site: the New York Times’ Chinese mirror, and anti-censorship organisation GreatFire.org.

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I doubt the cannon can actually do what is claimed. Denial of Service attacks, sure, but a teenager with one hand down his pants can pull that sort of thing off. 

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I hope the pun was intended given I described the project as an act of wankery.

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http://rt.com/news/203703-china-quantum-network-2016/

 

China is completing the project of the planet’s longest, 2,000-kilometer quantum communication network from Beijing to Shanghai. The network is considered “unhackable” and is set to start operating in 2016.

The “unhackability” is due to the most secure encryption technology ever, the South China Morning Post reported.

"China's quantum information science and technology is developing very fast and China leads in some areas in this field. Any city in China, as long they want to, can start to build the quantum communication network now," he said, Xinhua reported.

 

 

"The Chinese are really pushing the boundaries. They are moving at an incredible rate. No one else around the world has plans that are this ambitious," Raymond Laflamme, the head of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada, told The Telegraph.

"China is putting itself in the position of having secure private information that other countries will not be able to tap," he added.

fada:

I hadn't realised quantum computing had progressed beyond the point of maybe having two cubits on a chip in a lab, let alone a functioning communicaton network. Then again, I read in one of the official mouthpiece papers that shenzhen peoples hospital 15 (cant remember the number) had cured aids, amongst a host of other ailments.

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RT is 'Vladimir's' newspaper, but quote is Telegraph's. Banking, Internet...... are moving away from the USA influence. 'Tectonic shifts' in progress.

I read replies here, how 'Internet should be free...., and China is bad, because of the firewall', buTT....it's USA/Western blame for restrictions in Chinese broadband. Google, FaceBook, ...... Till July 2013, Western news were full of 'how Chinese spy through the Internet and what not....', but after 'Up-yours' 'opened' his briefcase, we could see it was just opposite: 'USA was looking in every rat hole around the globe'.

You might misread about AIDS. There was headline some 40 days ago: 'Chinese scientists developed Ebola vaccine....', however in real 'Gov. approved Ebola vaccine for tests on humans....'. In the same time, CCteli was reporting that UK private (A. Cross, if I remember correct) was cured of Ebola with vaccine developed by Chinese, and she returned to UK. 

I posted here about it.

I didn't read anywhere about Aids. It would certainly hit the headlines around the world, not only in Shenzhen.

http://au.ibtimes.com/ebola-update-china-develops-vaccine-hopes-early-approval-mortality-rate-now-70-who-reports-4447

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laowaigentleman:

Sounds about as credible as its GDP numbers.

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/china-to-lay-out-massive-quantum-network-for-information-security/

'With the maturity of China's quantum information science and technology, an advanced network that is considered unhackable and will provide the most secure encryption technology is ready to commercialise in China, according to Pan Jianwei, a quantum scientist and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.'

GDP numbers (economic data) are 'adjustable' (believable or no, like everywhere else), but this is technology. Can't say it works, if it doesn't. One would think, they'll start at the bottom (as leveled roads....), but it looks they'll fix/level roads using the robots after 2025.

The fastest CPU in the world was build in Tianjin Tech. Institute/Uni in 2011/12.

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