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* Ask your friend why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data. | * Ask your friend why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data. | ||
* Ask a journalist, a local newspaper, radio or TV station, why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data. | * Ask a journalist, a local newspaper, radio or TV station, why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data. | ||
* Write on your blog how dissatisfied you are with that! | * Write on your blog how dissatisfied you are with that! | ||
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== I'm using VPN, but my internet experience is still erratic == | == I'm using VPN, but my internet experience is still erratic == | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 1 May 2015
Contents
Overview
If you're being randomly redirected to sites like ours, www.norwich.edu, opensourcematters.org, www.paramiko.org, but also thousands of other sites[1], it means you are a victim of hacking [1] (GWF).
China's massive Internet infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to overseas cyberattacks, experts warned on Thursday after a server malfunction redirected a large number of requests to wrong pages for days. Experts said it will be difficult to trace the source of the attack because it is technically possible to carry it out by remotely controlling the servers. Page view requests to these sites were hijacked and redirected to two addressesï¼wpkg.org, the home page of an open source software, and ptraveler.com, a travel blog.A senior staff member overseeing Internet operations at the coordination center said: "It was a rather strange case because the hackers were directly targeting the telecom carriers' servers. It has rarely happened before.
What can I do to waste my time and do absolutely nothing to prevent the Great Firewall of China spoof my DNS requests
- Ask your friend why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data.
- Ask a journalist, a local newspaper, radio or TV station, why the Government of China is manipulating DNS to block access to websites, obtain your passwords and private data.
- Write on your blog how dissatisfied you are with that!
I'm using VPN, but my internet experience is still erratic
It's a common mistake to use a VPN service but send DNS queries locally. If you use a VPN connection, you should make sure your DNS queries are sent to a reliable DNS server - this excludes any public DNS located in China.
I'm outside of China, but I'm still randomly redirected
- your device (computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet...) may be infected with malware
- your device may have DNS servers changed to Chinese ones
- your local router may be hacked / have DNS servers changed to Chinese ones
[1] Full list available to interested parties.
[2] List of affected IP addresses changes approximately once a month and consists of thousands of IP addresses with different weights assigned. Full list for every day from past months available to interested parties.