China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' 114
On Wednesday we discussed news of Google's accusation that sources originating in China were interfering with Gmail using malware and phishing techniques, targeting Chinese political activists, US government officials, military personnel, and others. In response to the accusations, a Chinese official denied government involvement in the attacks, while the US government indicated they would investigate the matter. The attacks were more sophisticated than a typical phishing attempt, they involved Yahoo and Hotmail as well, and they have likely been going on for months. Now, according to a CBS report, "The Chinese military accused the US on Friday of launching a global 'Internet war' to bring down Arab and other governments, redirecting the spotlight away from allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China."
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Both are supreme villains.
Good psyops (Score:2)
> Sorry for violating Godwin's law, but, after all, 60 years ago Hitler accused the US of treating Jews inhumanely. This seems to be done in the same spirit. Oh right, 70 years by now. I'm getting old.
Yes, although this is a much better psyop. Think about it: China simultaneously diverts attention from its attacks, weakens the credibility of the US on cyber issues, undermines pro-western support in arab nations, undermines moderates in arab nations, etc...
Realize that being associated with the United St
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I don't see enough relevant difference between Republicans and Democrats to call this farce a two party system.
Freedom gone. Money gone. Motivation gone. We're panda food.
This is coming from a plain old garden variety libertarian.
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I was pondering today, as I was putting in a couple square rods of tomatoes, that we haven't really had the big famine yet around here, so all of this -out of work/fuel/money stuff is just an artificial construct being imposed on us by the same paper money/alternate reality crew that has been presenting this show all along. Reality-based lifestyles are really going down the tubes pretty fast though; Aside from the deforestation/climate change, Fracking and Mountaintop Removal are really fucking up our fresh
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Are the tomatoes right next to jalepenos ,onions and cilantro? Nothing clears gloom and doom like homebrew picante sauce.
Not worried about mountains, they can top them, force just keeps pushing them up.
At some point the earth was a mess of minerals and chemicals before we showed up, yet, we showed up and thrived.
I'm not going to worry a whole f**king lot about the food thing either. When we quit paying subsidies to farmers to grow nothing or worse, plant on unarible or flood prone ground, year after year,s
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"many other dictatorial regimes composed of blowhards, up to and including the modern US Republicans/TeePartiers."
"Whenever they start accusing someone else of something, assume either (a) they're doing it themselves or (b) they're doing something far worse and trying to draw attention away from it."
Well played, sir. The irony is deafening...
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Extremists on any part of the political spectrum use the same tactic; whether liberal, conservative, or libertarian.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
North Korea lives by this standard...
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How dare yee!
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Worse yet they're more efficient that the Repubmocrats here. Billary Clinton has handed off the socialist baton to Crackrok Obama who have done both their parts to architect a future generation mindset.( Kids R Suckerz). Badly enough though, its been going on since at least President Wilson and as social correct consciouslessness rises freedoms dissapear altogether, taken a little piece at a time. Think about it, Socialist Scientologist Democrat gave us the last huge screwing on Copyright in the name of the
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I can't wait for China to have a PMS moment and create their own internet. My SSH server will thank them. They can take the Koreas with them, as well as the old Russian Federation...
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What do we call this new Cold War? The Even Colder War? The Cyburr War? The Big Chill ... no, that's taken. The China Sindrome? Too obscure?
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No one outside China takes the Chinese media's views seriously as the media outlets are clearly controlled, or at least tightly watched over, by the government. It does not matter though. Their intended audiences are the Chinese citizens who listen to them daily. Only a v
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The US basically advertised the fact they were creating an cyber warfare unit whose purpose was attacking other countries infrastructure not defence. The government of China pointing this out is hardly revelatory.
The easiest way to deal with this, is to treat incoming data as a product export from the country of origin. If the exported data contains malicious content, the costs caused by that malicious content simply need to be calculated and a fine applied to the country of origin, upon the event and it
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Actually I think it is you guys who don't realise that meddling in another country's affairs is anti-American. The Arab Spring started with the people in those countries, not with America invading or enforcing sanctions etc. Okay, Facebook and Twitter played their part, but the revolution came from the people.
Even if the country you invade is "evil" like Iraq under Saddam or Afghanistan under the Taliban that doesn't make America the good guys, at least not in the eyes of many in the Arab and Asian worlds (
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I'd love that happens in the future, but historically America has overthrown democracies in favor of dictators many times. There are a whole bunch, but here are two:
1953 Iranian coup d'état [wikipedia.org]
1973 Chilean coup d'état [wikipedia.org]
In fairness, the american constitution allows us to talk about this history whereas in China, maybe not so much.
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Because I can use SSL with Gmail, and I trust Google more than I trust some random mail server I've never heard of. Also, safe-mail advertises 3Mb (I seriously hope they're just idiots and are actually offering 3MB, because 375KB isn't going to last long for anybody who actually uses their email account. 3MB isn't going to last long, either.). Gmail currently gives me almost 8GB.
If I'm really concerned about privacy, I can use one of my many email accounts on my own server. Then again, are you sure that all
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Then again, are you sure that all the intermediary servers your mail goes through are using SSL?
Of course they are! In fact, I did a geo-location on one of the computers I'm connected to through TOR and it looks like it's a pretty secure one in the Chinese government! If you can't trust them, who can you trust? See, TOR is a great idea for safe web access!
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What was read in China:
The world will be as prejudiced as it likes
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Being the leader of the free world isn't worth shit other than warm n' fuzzies, being the leader of the economic world is what counts, and subjugation is more profitable than freedom. Imagine in the US if all regulation were rolled back to 1800s levels and you still had all this modern technology and knowledge. That's China. Foxconn is an example of a 21st century company town. Sucks to be an Average Joe in China but it looks damn good on the quarterly statements.
But didn't China..... (Score:2, Insightful)
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http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/02/insecure-routing-redirects-youtube-to-pakistan.ars [arstechnica.com]
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71258.html [technewsworld.com]
China did it. (Score:3)
Ok.
* Various political interests that China wants to kill off are targeted.
* The US military is targeted.
* The US government (outside of the military) is targeted.
* A company that left China out of concerns for it being used as an attack platform was targeted.
* The rest of the evidence points to China's red hands being all over this.
The only answer worth giving to the Chinese government: ä½æ''èZï¼
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The only answer worth giving to the Chinese government: ä½æ''èZï¼
I agree, we should punish them by making the entire internet reliant on ASCII instead of an internationally compliant Unicode system!
Ok, so it mangled the unicode. (Score:2)
The only message worth giving in reply to the Chinese government: NÇ zhÃge piÃnzi!
(yes, it's translated output of "You liar!", in phonetic)
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Warmongering Warmongering Warmongering Warmongering Warmongering Warmongering Warmongering.
There is no reason to engage China militarily when we haven't cleaned up our mess in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now Libya. Another military conflict would be economically and socially disastrous for the US. I'm convinced that China would destroy us quickly if we tried.
technically, by staying in Afghanistan and Iraq we provide China with free military coverage of sea lanes and easy resource extraction from those countries without them having to pay for it (or at least loan us the money at interest to pay for it) - if we were serious we'd bring our troops home from both wars and let China provide it's own military resources to extract it's own cheap resources, instead of us paying for it.
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I'm convinced that China would destroy us quickly if we tried.
Either you are not in any way familiar with our relative military strengths, or you are trying to make a very absurd joke.
Not only do we have almost immeasurable technical superiority, enormously more capable and well trained troops and an order of magnitude more depth of strategic intelligence on their military than they have on ours, but our forces all actually want to fight for our country. China's only hope is either to continue milking us until we ruin ourselves financially (which is much further off t
Wait a minute... (Score:2)
Business as usual in Beijing: (Score:5, Insightful)
Google traces targeted gmail password trawling attacks to China.
Reaction?
The "independent" (and presumably "fair and balanced") Global Times calls Google "snotty nosed". The equally "independent" Xinhua News Agency says that the acusation that China was behind the gmail phishing was "evil intentioned".
The Chinese military ups the ante and accuses the US of an undeclared cyber war on the whole world.
In other news, the Reichstag still appears to be vaguely smoldering.
Regardless of China does or does not. (Score:1)
The gullibility of the american public never ceases to amaze me.
I swear to god, the next US president should be the damn kool aid mascot.
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I swear to god, the next US president should be the damn kool aid mascot.
OH YEAH!!!
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Damn it, you beat me to it! Well played!
You can always unplug it (Score:3, Insightful)
Hey China, nobody here held a gun to your head and forced you to use the Internet. We invented it for our own use, and thought it would be a good idea for peers to connect worldwide.
We had a saying during the Cold War: If you don't like the US, you're free to leave. This contrasted our philosophy with that of the Soviet Union, where emmigrating was very difficult.
Likewise, if you don't like the Internet you're free to create your own local network which is partially what you're doing with your "great firewall". Trouble is, you want it both ways. Sorry. Not our problem. If you can't firewall out everything you don't like then that leaves you with a choice:
Deal with some things you don't like, or unplug it.
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The real flip side would be that there are hundreds of US right activists political persecuted in the US, emigrated to China and now targeted by the US government or army by phishing attacks. Did you ever heard from at least one of these mysterious activists?
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Isn't this story about 2 years old? (Score:1)
"Google gets hacked from China. Decides to close China office and servers. Operate from Hong Kong"?
Why is this thought to be news?
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Now that they're no longer operating in China, they can't exactly threaten to close their China office again, so the Chinese government can hack them pretty much with impunity. (Not that the Chinese government really cared the first time.)
Pay attention to what they say (Score:2)
They say "the Government of China did not have anything to do with the attacks".
They do NOT say "the Chinese Army had nothing to do with the attacks".
It's all in the details and the saving of face.
no this sounds like Rod Blagojevich spin but not a (Score:1)
Everyone's doing it, just own up to it (Score:2)
Ban the republican party (Score:1)
Bring on the peaceful, united New World Order. One Planet, One nation.
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Heil Hitler!
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Sieg Heil!
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Sieg Heil! LOLOLOL!
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ONE TWO THREE!
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dsf sdgasdg sdag eswg
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ole ole ole ole
Block China in the firewall (Score:2)