James M.<p>Early Wednesday morning, for an hour and a quarter, China blocked secure connections to most web servers, by blocking any connection to a server's port 443 (which transmits almost all global secure web traffic). This article has the technical details:</p><p><a href="https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditional_rst_20250820/en/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditio</span><span class="invisible">nal_rst_20250820/en/</span></a></p><p>I think China is testing how much they can do without critical breakdown or blowback. One hour now, 12 hours later, maybe block more commonly used ports like 22, or even 80. Just to see what they can do, and what they can get away with. The final goal is to control and surveille all communications.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GFW</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatFirewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatFirewall</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cyberwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberwar</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a></p>