Best of 2025: NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.
HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged replies. Chinese web users couldn’t access websites outside the People’s Republic yesterday. The outage lasted an hour and a quarter—with no explanation. Nobody’s sure whether it was a mistake or an ominous test of new censorship capabilities. But some are linking it to a recent outage in Pakistan. In..