Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by criddell on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:38AM
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For one, we should all be making sure our websites use https all the time. If all you have is a personal website serving up mostly static content then it might not seem like you need to bother with a certificate but things like the Great Cannon are a great argument that you do. It's not unlike a public health argument for why everybody should be vaccinated.
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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by marcosdumay on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:17AM
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HTTPS will help your users not getting infected by code that a 3rd party injected on your site. But it will probably not help against the cannon, because the Chinese probably have some china controlled certificate installed.
Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by gruez on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:35AM
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>But it will probably not help against the cannon, because the Chinese probably have some china controlled certificate installed.
The whole point of the cannon is that you can leverage the bandwidth of other countries. The CCP already controls the telecoms in China. They don't need to hijack Chinese computers for DDoS attacks when they can directly DDoS from their ISP's backbone.