Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by gruez on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:29PM
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>If the Chinese government wants to man in the middle traffic to foreign sites they can just force PC vendors to install a CCP controlled CA root on systems and make it illegal and/or very difficult to remove it.
>Shit, they can require vendors include a hardware backdoor, especially since so much of that hardware is produced domestically.
If they're only doing it for local computers, the consequences/response is the same as the previous paragraph.
If they're doing it for foreign computers on a mass scale required for a DDoS attack, if discovered will torpedo their entire electronics sector. All the "ban huawei" politicians will have a field day with that.
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721843
>Shit, they can require vendors include a hardware backdoor, especially since so much of that hardware is produced domestically.
If they're only doing it for local computers, the consequences/response is the same as the previous paragraph.
If they're doing it for foreign computers on a mass scale required for a DDoS attack, if discovered will torpedo their entire electronics sector. All the "ban huawei" politicians will have a field day with that.