Yahoo Restricted in China as Hong Kong Protests Spur New Control
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Users trying to access Yahoo! Inc.’s main website from mainland China faced disrupted service yesterday as the government sought to restrict the flow of information amid student-led protests in Hong Kong.
The www.yahoo.com site was inaccessible in some parts of the country, according to Greatfire.org, a group that monitors Internet censorship. The pattern suggested a “man-in-the-middle attack,” in which an attacker intercepts data that Internet users exchange with Yahoo’s servers, the group said.