{"id":1210,"date":"2015-04-20T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:33:17","slug":"the-internet-great-walls-of-fire-the-economist-4-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/04\/20\/the-internet-great-walls-of-fire-the-economist-4-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet: Great walls of fire | The Economist, 4 April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 31st Greatfire.org pinned the blame for the recent attacks on the CAC, saying that the Great Firewall could not have been used without its approval or that of Lu Wei, the minister in charge. But attribution is hard to prove. According to Nathan Freitas of the Berkman Centre for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University, there is no smoking gun implicating the Chinese government\u2014but the authorities should be asked how they allowed critical internet infrastructure to be \u201ccompromised by criminals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/china\/21647656-wave-internet-attacks-points-attempt-hobble-foreign-websites-great-walls-fire\">The internet: Great walls of fire | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 31st Greatfire.org pinned the blame for the recent attacks on the CAC, saying that the Great Firewall could not have been used without its approval or that of Lu Wei, the minister in charge. But attribution is hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/04\/20\/the-internet-great-walls-of-fire-the-economist-4-april-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}