Last month, a website called Github that programmers around the world rely on to store their source code - the raw ingredient of all software - came under attack from an unknown assailant. For developers who make programs and website that people use every day, the effect was crippling: Without source code, nothing could be done. Now, a University of Toronto-led team finally put a name - and a moniker - to the assailants: Researchers from the Citizen Lab pointed towards a Chinese tool called the “Great Cannon.”
“The position of the Chinese government is that efforts to serve what it views as hostile content inside China’s borders is a hostile and provocative act that is a threat to its regime stability and ultimately its national security,” Sarah McKune, a senior legal advisor at the Lab, and one of the report’s co-authors, told the New York Times. This is hardly the first time the Citizen Lab has made international news: The lab is already world-famous for tracking down other acts of cyber-espionage, including an attempt to infiltrate government computers belonging to the Dalai Lama.
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Source: New York Times