Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn’t have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.
Activist group Great Firewall Report spotted the outage, which it said disrupted all traffic to TCP port 443 – the standard port used for carrying HTTPS traffic.
“Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443,” the group wrote in a Wednesday post.
Did .ml get real quiet?
.ml is blocked in China not surprisingly.
We were chillin rent free in y’all’s heads
just an hour in the middle of the night? sounds more like maintenance or an accidental block.
Or a test run to check reactions
no you don’t understand, china bad. like an hour worth of outage = cUtTinG theSelVes oFf
Are we supposed to be glad they have the ability to do this?
almost every country has the ability to cause an internet outage, accidentally or otherwise.
Sharks in the ocean also have this ability.
also submarines of a given nation
“This has been a test…”
Of the Orwell Plagiarism System…
Imagine all that propaganda that never reached its victims. So sad!
I doubt this is going to affect the propaganda machines’ Internet connection
No mention of port 80 (HTTP) in the article… I wonder if they still had access to the internet, just without SSL?
Also isn’t there plenty of ways of using the internet that don’t use either HTTP or HTTPS?
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Don’t a lot of websites enforce https at this point?
nah mate, SSL is a fad. it’ll be turned off any day now.
I think AI has already moved on from that fad; every website I’ve vibe coded this week has only worked on http so far. You can check this one out if you want: http://localhost:3000/
Hey! You’ve copied that app that I’ve been working on, you dirty thief. Not even bothered to make any changes, either. Switch that off at once!
