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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by eric-hu on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:51PM (#21726324)
The Chinese government can do this for systems sold within China. They don't have the authority to do it for computers globally.

If I'm understanding other comments correctly, browser vendors installing HTTPSEverywhere cuts down the potential for this Great Cannon attack from 7.7 billion users to 1.4 billion. An 80% reduction seems significant.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by giggles_giggles on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:00PM (#21726415)
I was under the impression that the other commenters were referring to HTTPS as a solution for those in China to protect themselves from their own government. Perhaps I was wrong.
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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by mlyle on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:22AM (#21728825)
No. It's to protect users outside China visiting Chinese sites from being coopted to participate in DDoS.
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