I&#x27;m really glad to see the discussion really highlighting that this is not a problem unique to China:<p>“Our findings in China add another documented case to at least two other known instances of governments tampering with unencrypted Internet traffic to control information or launch attacks — the other two being the use of QUANTUM by the US NSA and UK’s GCHQ. In addition, product literature from two companies, FinFisher and Hacking Team, indicate that they sell similar ‘attack from the Internet’ tools to governments around the world. These latest findings emphasize the urgency of replacing legacy web protocols like HTTP with their cryptographically strong counterparts, such as HTTPS.”<p>sasvari: thanks for posting this – it&#x27;s a great followup to the earlier blogs posts from the authors now that the dust has settled a bit and everyone has had more time to think on it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citizenlab.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;chinas-great-cannon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citizenlab.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;chinas-great-cannon&#x2F;</a><p>(previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9353785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9353785</a>)