U.S. Calls On China To End Hacking; Start Cyberspace Dialogue 160
New submitter trickymyth writes "For the first time, the United States has mentioned the People's Republic of China in relation to cyber crime, officially acknowledging what has been long suspected by private security experts and the U.S. business community. The Obama Administration seeks to get the Chinese government to acknowledge the problem, to cease any state-sponsored hacker activity, and to start a dialogue on normative behavior on the internet. This announcement follows the recent 60-page report from the American cybersecurity firm Mandiant, who spent two years compiling evidence against the so-called 'Comment Crew.' They traced IP addresses, common behavior, and tools to track the group's activity, which led to a Shanghai neighborhood home to the People's Liberation Army (PLA's) Unit 61398. This tracking came at the behest of the Times, who has experienced some trouble with hacking in the past. The Chinese government rejected the report as 'unprofessional' and 'lacking technical evidence.' This announcement also comes amid a delicate leadership transition in China and numerous new reports on the vulnerability of U.S. business and government networks to attack."
Re:Good Luck With That (Score:5, Funny)
Cyber war = rise of the nerds?
I have a cheap solution (Score:5, Funny)
Silly Times, if you are scared of the Chinese hackers, you can just insert this code at the top of your site:
< h1 > tiananmen square < /h1 >
Re:Good Luck With That (Score:5, Funny)
Cyber war = rise of the nerds?
In case of Chinese government-fed hackers, it's rice of the nerds.
Re:Mr President (Score:3, Funny)
No women! They'll destroy the purity and essence of our natural fluids!
Corrollory to Betteridge's Law (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Agreed (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know why I have a feeling that US'es best interest is to fix their security flaws.
Fix... the flaws? But... that would be like... shipping products which were warranted to be of merchantable fitness! It would require mandatory code regression analysis and testing which might cost money and would certainly create jobs! You're asking the software industry to submit to invasive scrutiny from the same kind of Government jackboots that the food, banking and building industries now tremble under daily! And that's socialism.
The only thing that can stop a black hat with a rootkit is a white hat with a rootkit!
If you outlaw shoddy, worthless software containing a million zero-day exploits, only outlaws will be exploited!
You'll take my imperative thread-based unsafe self-modifying code from my cold dead FATAL EXCEPTION AT 00FE:4358 SYSTEM HALTED!
In conclusion, I support Mom, apple pie, and an American software developer's inalienable right to immediately patent and ship whatever string of line noise can be coerced to come out the other end of a rusty, sawn-off C++ compiler, and my esteemed opponent does not.
I know I can trust you all to vote with your hearts.
Re:"Normative behavior" (Score:5, Funny)
"We are not hacking. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time."
(Guard 2 whispers): "Are they leaving?"
"I told them we weren't hacking." (Both snicker.)