Architecture Digest

Feb 19, 2022 · Information Security

Case Study: Illegal Web Crawling and Criminal Conviction in China

This article recounts how a corporate web‑crawling tool designed to automate housing‑loan data collection overloaded a municipal residence‑permit system, triggered a large‑scale denial‑of‑service attack, and led to the CTO and programmer being prosecuted for damaging a computer information system.