China’s Great Firewall Mysteriously Severed Connection to the World for an Hour
For about an hour on Wednesday, China appeared to go dark—or at least internet access across the country did. According to an analysis published by the Great Firewall Report, a group that monitors internet censorship efforts in China, something happened in the wee hours of Wednesday morning that resulted in China blocking almost all traffic to TCP port 443, the standard port for HTTPS traffic. Between the hours of 12:34 and 1:48 AM in Beijing, someone was observed “unconditionally injecting for