9 years ago
China’s Great Firewall is demolishing foreign websites
Craig Hockenberry noticed something strange was happening to his website one morning last month: traffic had suddenly spiked to extremely high levels—equivalent to more than double the amount of data transmitted when Kim Kardashian’s naked photos were published last year. The reason, he discovered, was that Chinas Great Firewall—the elaborate machinery that China’s government uses to censor the internet—was redirecting enormous amounts of bogus traffic to his site quickly swamping his servers.
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