Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China

Darren Rayes writes to mention a ZDNet article on Cambridge academics' claims that they have breached the great firewall of China. They also claim that by misusing the firewall they can launch DDoS attacks against IP addresses behind the wall. From the article: "The IDS uses a stateless server, which examines each data packet both going in and out of the firewall individually, unrelated to any previous request. By forging the source address of a packet containing a 'sensitive' keyword, people could trigger the firewall to block access between source and destination addresses for up to an hour at a time."

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[Anonymous Coward]

With enough people working on it, we can temporarily block the entire country from the rest of the Internet. How's that for a fourth of July?

Mongolians?

[veinard]

Weird, I didn't know there were many mongolians at cambridge...

should we slashdot china's firewall?....

[edflyerssn007]

Should china's firewall be slashdotted so that it can't work anymore and therefore allow the people of china a free internet? (free as in not censored).

-ed

Re:Legal action against Cambridge?

[Anonymous Coward]

The University of Cambridge is an English university, not an American company, you (obligatory) insensitive clod!

(It's "obligatory" because it's the only way insightful anonymous coward comments get modded up.)

Ninjas rough up geeks

[anidiot]

When a bunch of ninjas rough up the geeks in Cambridge, don't be surprised.

Re:Ninjas rough up geeks

[WilliamSChips]

Why would the Chinese have ninja? Ninja are Japanese you n00b!

Re:This is not helping China

[Breakfast Pants]

One guy makes a dumb post and now half of slashdot's readers are saying that half of slashdot's reader's don't know where Cambridge is?

Re:Legal action against Cambridge?

[einexile]

What's your problem with CleanFeed? Surely you sleep more soundly knowing the pedophiles in your neighborhood aren't wasting valuable kidnapping and raping time on Internet porn.