China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic (Published 2015)

Experts said it appeared that signals to and from Baidu, an Internet company based in Beijing, were being redirected.Credit...David Gray/Reuters HONG KONG — The Chinese government has long used a sophisticated set of Internet filters known as the Great Firewall as a barrier to prevent its citizens from obtaining access to foreign websites with information it deems threatening. But in a recent seri