China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday
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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.
That disruption meant Chinese netizens couldn’t reach most websites hosted outside China, which is inconvenient. The incident also blocked other services that rely on port 443, which could be more problematic because many services need to communicate with servers or sources of information outside China for operational reasons. For example, Apple and Tesla use the port to connect to offshore servers that power some of their basic services.
What a trash headline. Makes it sound like they dropped a new iron curtain or something.
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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.
That disruption meant Chinese netizens couldn’t reach most websites hosted outside China, which is inconvenient. The incident also blocked other services that rely on port 443, which could be more problematic because many services need to communicate with servers or sources of information outside China for operational reasons. For example, Apple and Tesla use the port to connect to offshore servers that power some of their basic services.
I wonder if this means less cheaters in multiplayer games.
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But… How else will the tankies receive their brainwashing?! Think of the poor propaganda being hurt by this madness!
Chinese government sanctioned groups can and will still access the broader internet.
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Yeah they don't understand this stuff. They don't even know what a VPN is they're just angry about it.
Actually doing this would be devastating to the economy, and anyway they still need to justify their actions. They can't be openly dictatorial just yet.
The country of Brexit showed how much they care about devastating the economy
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I wonder if this means less cheaters in multiplayer games.
How many games use HTTPS?
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Yeah they don't understand this stuff. They don't even know what a VPN is they're just angry about it.
Actually doing this would be devastating to the economy, and anyway they still need to justify their actions. They can't be openly dictatorial just yet.
"You are all pedos if you are against us" is probably what we will get.
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How many games use HTTPS?
There's that game where you made paperclips...
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I wonder if this means less cheaters in multiplayer games.
More. I play in oceania and the cheaters are always english speakers.
Edit: the things you get downvoted for here. should've checked the instance before I commented.
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More. I play in oceania and the cheaters are always english speakers.
Edit: the things you get downvoted for here. should've checked the instance before I commented.
Maybe all 3 of you can come to an agreement somehow?
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How many games use HTTPS?
Not HTTPS necessarily, but lots use TLS over 443. If you are sending something like login credentials to an online service, it makes sense for the servers to use what is universally available instead of reinventing the wheel. Also, some games may use a launcher that uses HTTPS if they are web-based in some fashion, or maybe the game will use it for certain kinds of API calls unrelated to actual gameplay.
If you are playing a game that uses a dedicated server (or just isn't a competitive game at all), then TLS usage is probably unlikely, but those games aren't lucrative for the account boosting/currency farming that makes cheating so rampant in China anyway.
Even signing up for some games requires you to create an account on their website first.
