SAN FRANCISCO: A firm specializing in censorship-evading technology on Wednesday blamed a massive breakdown of China's Internet on website address "hijacking" tools used by authorities there.
"In 2002, China started to use DNS hijacking technology to block web sites," said US-based Dynamic Internet Technology, which runs a tool called FreeGate designed to bypass Chinese Internet censors.
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