Case Study (Literature Review)

Internet in China looks different than this one we are used to it. Communist Party is controlling the content, which is uploaded. The Chinese government in 2013 employed around 2 million people just to keep control of the Internet content (Economy, 2018). They also used "Great Firewall", the group of techniques such as blocking IP addresses, filtering URLs and keywords and DNS attacks (Shen, 2019).

Chinese people have to use different software such as Internet browser as well. One of the most popular Chinese browsers is QQ Browser. This software is created by Tencent - Chinese Internet giant (Knockel, Senft and Deibert, 2016). Layout and functionality are similar to these browsers, which are using in other parts of the world such as Google Chrome or Safari. However, in comparison to other browsers, in QQ Browser exist a large number of data points, which are not encrypted or can be easily decrypted (Knockel, Senft and Deibert, 2016).

A large number of these differences are forcing by the Chinese government. Many of lacks in security are existing because the government is practising censoring the websites. For example, the Chinese version of Wikipedia has been blocked after switch the website protection to full SSL encryption (Gamboa, 2019).

It was not the first time when Apple iCloud had been hacked. In September 2014, iCloud had been attacked. This attack caused a leak of celebrities naked photos, their personal information such as personal details, addresses, emails and passwords (Arthur, 2014). This incident is most known iCloud hack.

 

 

 

 References:

Arthur, C., 2014. Naked Celebrity Hack: Security Experts Focus On Icloud Backup Theory. [online] The Guardian. Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/01/naked-celebrity-hack-icloud-backup-jennifer-lawrence> [Accessed 3 December 2020]. 

 Economy, E., 2018. The Great Firewall Of China: Xi Jinping’S Internet Shutdown. [online] The Guardian. Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/29/the-great-firewall-of-china-xi-jinpings-internet-shutdown> [Accessed 20 November 2020].


Gamboa, J., 2016. SSL Usage In China - Dispatches By John P. Gamboa. [online] Dispatches by John P. Gamboa. Available at: <https://jpgamboa.com/ssl-usage-china/> [Accessed 20 November 2020].


Knockel, J., Senft, A. and Deibert, R., 2016. WUP! There It Is: Privacy And Security Issues In QQ Browser - The Citizen Lab. [online] The Citizen Lab. Available at: <https://citizenlab.ca/2016/03/privacy-security-issues-qq-browser/> [Accessed 3 December 2020].

 
Shen, X., 2019. The Story Of China’S Great Firewall, The World’S Most Sophisticated Censorship System. [online] South China Morning Post. Available at: <https://www.scmp.com/abacus/who-what/what/article/3089836/story-chinas-great-firewall-worlds-most-sophisticated> [Accessed 20 November 2020]. 





 

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