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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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