According to M. Boehler (March 20, 2015) Greatfire.org a group of anonymous activits who monitor online censorship in China, provided access to blocked websites and controlled messages deleted by censors; over a period of four years felt the wrath of an online attack from hackers last week. On Thursday the hackers used a commonly used method to hack in by flooding them with multiple request, resulting to them being off line and viewers seeing a blank page which continued into Friday.
Greatfire.org said “ This kind of attack is aggressive and is a exhibition of censorship by brute force. Attackers resort to tactics like this when they are left with no other options.”
Mr. Smith thinks that the attack my be because of Wall Street Journal posting made on Monday by GreatFire.org or “ Maybe because there have been some excellent Chinese –language news pieces and perhaps somebody who supports the authorities took issue with them.”
The hacking may be a mystery but it is causing the company at least $30,000 per day. Mr smith believes services will not be disrupted for good and that the experience should “accelerate development.”
The full story can be read on sinophere.blogs.nytimes.com
.A.Ventour
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