Posted on 04/14/2012 9:41:58 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China’s mysterious Internet outage; speculation over a ‘kill switch’
By Hana Stewart-Smith | April 13, 2012, 5:33am PDT
At approximately 11am local time yesterday, Internet users around China reported significant Internet blackouts. Not only were they unable to access some Chinese sites, but also many foreign Web sites that had not previously been blocked.
The issue was not isolated to China. Web users in Hong Kong and Japan also reported issues with accessing Chinese sites. A number of explanations immediately came to light, with the most viable cause being the 8.7 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia on Wednesday, that might have damaged undersea cables.
However, reports from China’s major telecommunication companies — China Telecom and Unicom — suggest that this was not the case. China Telecom confirmed that the earthquake had not interfered with the underwater cables in any way.
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It was arguably far too quick to be a response to Anonymous’ war rally against China’s Great Firewall, which even they admitted will take time to crack.
Others have suggested that the temporary outage might have been a test run of an emergency ‘kill switch’, in case extreme measures need to be taken in the ongoing crackdown of the Chinese Internet.
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This cannot be surgically taken care of, since it involves lots of major players. You can’t hide their activities. There are simply too many.
I'm just sayin’...
Hussein is taking notes.
China. The test bed for technologies that will be brought to the U.S.
This might make the people rise up.
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