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Sorry but how would a bored teenager somewhere have control over injecting attacks in traffic passing through the "Great Firewall of China". This really doesn't seem like a typical attack to me but you are right in that I should not be claiming this an obvious attack by a nation-state without the facts.

how would a bored teenager somewhere have control over injecting attacks in traffic passing through the "Great Firewall of China

The same way a 15yr old once took out Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Dell and Amazon: Dedication.

Perhaps it's even a Chinese activist, looking to draw attention to the firewall or to spark a little diplomatic quarrel with the US?

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