China's 'great firewall' being used to mount attacks on Apple's iCloud

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Chinese government using 'great firewall' to mount man-in-the-middle attacks on Apple's infrastructure

The Chinese government is using its "great firewall", the system by which it censors web sites outside its jurisdiction, in order to mount "man-in-the-middle" attacks on users of Apple's iCloud. ...

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