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Anti Censorship Service Greatfire Hit With DDoS Attack
The website greatfire.org appears to be under a massive distributed denial of service attackthe service #39;s first, undoubtedly prompted by the mention of Greatfire in a recent Wall Street...

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An activist group working to end Chinas Internet censorship is facing an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that threatens to cripples its activities.

GreatFire.org, a censorship watchdog based within the country, reported on Thursday that it had been hit with its first ever DDoS attack.

Although its not known who is behind the attack, China has been suspected of using the tactic before to take down activist websites.

DDoS attacks work by using an army of hacked computers to send an overwhelming amount of traffic to a website, effectively disabling it.

In an Internet posting, GreatFire said that they were seeing 2.6 billion requests per hour, and that its websites had been forced offline.

We are not equipped to handle a DDoS attack of this magnitude and we need help. the group added.

The DDoS attack is targeting mirror websites GreatFire created to let Chinese users access blocked content, such as Google, BBC, the New York Times and other sites known to offer articles critical of the Chinese government.

To create the mirror websites, GreatFire has been using Amazon.com to host them through its cloud services. If the country wanted to cut access to the sites, the government would have to cause collateral damage and risk blocking Amazon servers that also support a large number of businesses, according to the group.

GreatFire suspects that the DDoS is in response to a Wall Street Journal article about the groups use of cloud services to poke holes through Chinas censorship.

Because of the number of requests we are receiving, our bandwidth costs have shot up to US$30,000 per day, the group said. Amazon, which is the service we are using, has not yet confirmed whether they will forgo this.

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Anti-censorship group in China faces DDoS attack

A website that helps Chinese Internet users see censored pages says it is the target of a massive denial-of-service attack and is struggling to stay online.

GreatFire.org wrote in a post Thursday that the actions started Tuesday in the first such attack ever directed at the site. The site wrote that it didn't know who was launching the attacks but that they coincided with increased pressure from Chinese officials.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not answer phone calls Friday seeking comment.

GreatFire.org wrote that it was receiving 2.6 billion requests per hour, which are useless traffic designed to overwhelm the site. The organization said the attack was costing the site $30,000 per day to stay up.

The group doesn't reveal where it's based or who runs it.

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Website Skirting Chinese Censorship Says It's Under Attack

Whoever is behind the attack is likely not a big fan of Greatfire's services, which are designed to help Web surfers in China evade the country's censorship policies.

The website greatfire.org appears to be under a massive distributed denial of service attackthe service's first, undoubtedly prompted by the mention of Greatfire in a recent Wall Street Journal article about online censorship in China.

Greatfire, for those unaware, allows uses to look up websites and keywords to see whether they're actively being blocked or otherwise censored by the Chinese governmentThe Great Firewall, as its commonly known. The website also maintains a number of mirrors of popular websites like Google, Boxun, and microblogging website Weibo, so users can access them sans restrictions.

Part of the site's success, as described in a 2014 Bloomberg article,, lies in the fact that Greatfire hosts its mirrors using Amazon's Web Services. Everything on Amazon Web Services is encrypted, so it's impossible to tell whether requests are for legitimate sites or sites that China's censors would otherwise target for content. So, to block Greatfire's service, China would have to block Amazon Web Services in general, which would undoubtedly hack off a number of businesses and other entities using Amazon's service for legitimate means.

According to Greatfire, the DDoS attack started on Tuesday, and it's hitting the site's mirrors with around 2.6 billion requests per hour (2500 times its normal traffic).

"While we have talked openly about our method of using collateral freedom to unblock websites and mobile apps that have been blocked by the Chinese authorities, the WSJ story clearly stated how the strategy works and how it is being used successfully to deliver uncensored content into China," reads a Greatfire blog post.

"We don't know who is behind this attack. However, the attack coincides with increased pressure on our organization over the last few months. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) publicly called us 'an anti-China website set up by an overseas anti-China organization'. We also know that CAC has put pressure on our IT partners to stop working with us. Recently, we noticed that somebody was trying to impersonate us to intercept our encrypted email."

The DDoS has allegedly bumped up Greatfire's hosting costs over at Amazon to just around $30,000 daily. It remains to be seen whether Amazon will lessen that amount as a result of the attack, or just eliminate the extra hosting cost entirely.

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Googles headquarters in Beijing. Surfers in China might have found it harder to access an uncensored Google via Greatfire.org since the attack. Photograph: Sinopix/REX

An advocacy group that helps internet users inside China bypass blocks on censored content says it is suffering a denial-of-service attack disrupting its operations.

US-subsidised Greatfire.org says the attack started two days ago and traffic is 2,500 times above normal. It has affected mirror, or duplicate, websites that it has set up via encrypted web services offered by companies such as Amazon.

Greatfire.org said the attack has interfered with visitors to sites including Boxun.com, which publicises allegations of corruption and human rights abuses inside China, German provider Deutsche Welle, and Google.

The statement from a co-founder of the group, who goes by the pseudonym Charlie Smith, said its not clear who is behind the attack, but it coincides with increased pressure on the organization over the last few months and public criticism from Chinese authorities.

The Chinese government blocks thousands of websites to prevent what it deems politically sensitive information from reaching Chinese users, an effort dubbed the Great Firewall.

According to the free-expression watchdog Freedom House, since late 2013 Greatfire.org has been hosting content on domains owned by Amazon and other major companies, which officials cannot risk censoring because of their large commercial footprint within China.

Smith said the current denial-of-service attack that is flooding the mirror websites is costing the group up to $30,000 per day in bandwidth.

Greatfire.org says it gets its funding from a variety of sources, including from people and organizations inside China. The Open Technology Fund, a US-government-backed initiative to support internet freedom, says on its website it provided Greatfire.org with $114,000 in 2014.

Zhu Haiquan, spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said: As we have always stated, Chinese laws prohibit cybercrimes of all forms. The Chinese government is making great efforts to combat cybercrimes and safeguard cybersecurity. Jumping to conclusions and making unfounded accusations is not responsible and is counterproductive.

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London Angolan journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, joint winner of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism, spoke at the ceremony in London on 18 March

Both as a journalist and human rights activist, Rafael Marques de Morais has exposed government and industry corruption in Angola speaking out for those whose human rights have been violated in his country. Despite repeated arrests and threats, including a 40-day detention without charge during which he was denied food and water for days, Marques de Morais has continued his investigations, most recently detailing human rights abuses within Angola's diamond companies including 500 cases of torture and 100 murders of villagers living in the vicinity. After filing charges of crimes against humanity against seven Angolan generals, Marques do Morais is now being counter-sued for $1.6 (1.09) million. Undeterred, he continues to write on corruption in Angola. He is the joint recipient of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism.

With an award comes a greater responsibility. It is therefore my privilege to accept this journalism award, and dedicate it to my fellow Ethiopian colleagues Eskinder Nega, Reeyot Alemo, and the Zone 9 bloggers. They are in jail, currently serving some of the harshest sentences in Africa, for the crime of exercising their right to freedom of expression. For over a year, the Ethiopian government has denied adequate health care to Reeyot Alemu, who is in desperate need.

Ethiopia is the seat of the African Union, and its regime is one of the worst offenders for upholding the freedoms of the press and of expression. When a regime in Africa succeeds in trampling their citizens' rights with impunity, and enjoys such good international standing and legitimacy as Ethiopia, it becomes a textbook case for other authoritarian regimes.

I believe in the power of solidarity. I have experienced troubles of my own. It has been the solidarity of others that has helped to strengthen my courage and resolve to continue my journey.

Back in 1996, being in London and aghast at press censorship in Angola, I decided to bring it to international attention. Because I could not speak English, I fumbled through an organization's directory, and found Index on Censorship. I could understand the word Censorship. I called them and attended a meeting on Africa. My remarks were most convincing and incredibly short! "Censorship in Angola bad. Dos Santos [the president] bad. Very bad!" Then, a few months later I had an article translated and published in Index's magazine. It was disseminated through other publications in a number of countries.

On my return to Angola from this trip, I will be sitting in court, on 24 March, as the defendant on 11 separate charges of defamation brought against me by seven powerful generals and four of their business associates. I wrote a book that exposed human rights abuses in the diamond industry, in which the plaintiffs are major shareholders and whose private security company has executed many of the violations.

I am proud and honored to stand up against such a mighty power to enable many of the victims to speak out through my reports, which I have been producing for the past 10 years. I will come out of this trial stronger and empowered by the experience.

Thank you very much for this wonderful occasion.

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