Has China Weaponized The Internet?

China Telecom has denied any highjacking of U.S. internet traffic. Photo from CNN

The Diplomat: Has China Weaponized the Internet?

China’s internet censorship went on the offensive this week, enlisting computers around the world in a DDoS attack.

Last week, China’s internet censorship apparently began playing offense – GitHub was the target of a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack beginning last Thursday. The attack targeted two specific pages on GitHub’s site: the page for the Chinese-language version of the New York Times and the page for GreatFire.org, a group dedicated to exposing and circumventing Chinese online censorship.

GreatFire.org also said it had been the subject of a major DDoS attack beginning in mid-March, after which GreatFire.org began mirroring content on GitHub. The attack on GitHub came after GreatFire.org began asking users to access the GitHub page directly. GitHub called the attack the “largest DDos” ever launched against the site.

WNU Editor: The Edward Snowden NSA revelations have revealed to the world that the internet has become just another battlefield .... and if the Chinese are involved (which I believe that they are) .... it will just show that the U.S. is not the only global player in this new age of warfare.