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| Internet cafe in Beijing: Users reported being unable to access ANY foreign sites today |
12 April 2012
By Rob Waugh
The Christian Science Monitor
China's draconian internet censorship system - known as 'the Great Firewall of China' - intensified briefly today, blocking ALL foreign websites.
Observers speculated that the system could be being upgraded to further tighten the regime's control over foreign sites.
Users in Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere in China reported that they were unable to access any foreign sites at all.
China already heavily restricts access to many foreign sites.
China blocks Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and many other websites citing a need to maintain social stability.
'Latest news: most foreign websites can't be accessed,' said a company, Data Centre for China Internet.
'Analysis: for commonly known reasons, a large number of foreign URLs are blocked.
'It is possible that the great firewall is undergoing some readjustment, mistakenly adding many foreign websites to the blocking list. The details are unclear.'
Others speculated that the 'outage' could be caused by damage to undersea cabling caused by the earthquakes on Wednesday this week.
The change in the service came as China faced renewed attack from Western 'hacktivists' for its restrictive internet policies and human rights violations.
The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday.
Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into Chinese government websites last week, defacing several, media reports said.
The group used the Twitter account ‘Anonymous China’ to publicise the attacks, posting links to data files that contained passwords and other personal information from the hacked websites.
‘First we want to alert the Chinese government that we aren't afraid, and we are going to show the truth and fight for justice,’ Anonymous hacker ‘f0ws3r' said.
The hacker, who declined to provide any personal details, was contacted through Anonymous China's Twitter page. F0ws3r said the group planned more serious attacks against Chinese websites.
‘Yes, we are planning more attacks, a few at a time,’ f0ws3r said, adding that the plan was to take down the ‘Great Firewall of China’.
4 comments:
And no doubt Hun Sen is learning from from China. Once of these day when Cambodia has critical mass of internet connected devices, you wake up one morning and there will be no Facebook.
KHMER INTELLIGENT PLEASE BLOCK MIKE KHENG ACCOUNT DUE TO HIS IGNORANCE COMMENT ON ITS OWN CREED. THUS, CAMBODIAN PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE CAN ELOQUENCE THEIR ISSUE. LOL...
One-sided view in partial of the west propaganda media outputs of bias and double standards perpetual rants. News from site like Fox, NBC, and other like this one will veer your perception from the true events of the white people ill-fated ambition and malice in the world. Reading from foreign news like the Sino.com, RT news, and Asia Times Online give you more precise conclusions of pro and con from both ends.
3:42AM,
????? Talking to yourself isn't healthy. You need medical help as well on your writing!
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