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March 21, 2019March 20, 2019 Web & Network

Lots of favicon.ico requests from Mainland China

I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing...

October 28, 2008March 20, 2019 Independent Thinking

Chinese Hi-Tech protect net on top of the mainland China

It is so powerful that anybody is affected by it in mainland China. Sometimes we call it GFW – Great Firewall. Sometimes we call it Chinese Lan. Here is the comparison made by the special Firefox addon. China Channel Screencast...