Another Reason For Ubiquitous Web Encryption: To Neuter China's "Great Cannon"
China’s web censorship machine, the Great Firewall, has a more offensive brother, researchers have declared today. Called the Great Cannon by Citizen Lab, a research body based at the University of Toronto, it can intercept traffic and manipulate it to do evil things. In recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on code repository Github, ...