Great Firewall

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Mon 14 Feb 2022

Great Firewall of China

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark

Networks21 Aug 2025 | 57

China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure

Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers

Networks04 Aug 2025 | 7

Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive

UPDATED Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved

Security11 Jul 2025 | 5

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found

Networks27 Feb 2025 | 38

China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever

Security06 Oct 2022 | 8

Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week

Locals fear sharing their views on new National Internet Gateway

Security14 Feb 2022 | 23

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