Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree (zdnet.com) 61
A day after the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals for being members of a state-sponsored hacking group and accused the Chinese government of orchestrating a string of hacks around the world, five other governments have stepped in with similar accusations. From a report: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK have published official statements today formally blaming China of hacking their government agencies and local companies. All statements are in regards to the supposed involvement of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) in supporting the activity of a hacking group known as APT10. In a DOJ indictment yesterday, the US says this group hacked companies in 12 countries, and later breached cloud service providers, wormed through their infrastructure, and hacked even more companies. US officials said the primary purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies, helping create an unfair advantage for local firms on the global market.
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wow, common sense.
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Quit the whining.
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If Chinese ACs didn't try to divert attention from the real problem we could focus on the issue at hand.
Time for the Rest of US to Get Serious (Score:2)
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The CIA and MI6 want to create as many spies in China as they can so the needs a lot people (spies) moving in and out of China.
What the NSA, CIA, GCHQ and MI6 though is that spying would always be into China on their terms.
Spies into China. People who studied in the West returning to Chain to spy for the CIA and MI6 for generations with decades of direct spy results from deep in t
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Spying is where the governments collect data for political reasons, and in case of war. This is accepted. Countries have to try to defend themselves.
What China is doing is not that. At all. It is economic warfare; something all the other major countries agree not to use their spies for during peace time. It is insane that they think they'll be a big country, exporting lots of products to the world, and also engaging in economic warfare against their trade partners. Just insane.
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Did they all get told to let China spy in the West?
Who held back the best efforts by the FBI, MI5 to stop spying by China?
Did the West have its own long term plans to counter spying by China?
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"Fought by only one side?" You really think the US and all other countries are not doing the same? You really think the US doesn't hack, spy, and steal secrets to favor its companies or to get an edge politically? Personally, I tend to believe the US is the most active country in this "war".
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I would be more cruel. You really think Canada, Australia and New Zealand have a foreign policy opinion of their own. The US/UK cabal squawks and the vassal states chime in. It looks so awful now, the US has dragged Australia's foreign policy reputation through the mud, stained and worthless, nothing but quisling foreign policy state. Just stop doing it, it sells nothing any more and just makes them, well, us just look worse and more pathetic. Continue to try to fuck with Australian trade with China and the
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You're hilarious. Go to anyone of those countries and tell them what you said, and you'll likely get your ass kicked.
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ECHELON didn't hack into China's networks. You're confusing data collection regimes with intrusive exfiltration and corporate spying - like a moron might do in defense of a state-backed criminal enterprise like China.
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trump should say any one hacking china pardons (Score:2)
trump should say any one hacking china will get an auto pardon.
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Chinese Hacking vs. American Hacking (Score:1)
All governments conduct or sponsor hacking. The principal difference between the United States and China is that American hacking is subject to review by the judicial branch of government. Hence, the American Civil Liberties Union can sue Washington to curb American hacking or to expose its extent.
Chinese hacking is not subject to such constraints. China is a brutal, authoritarian society [blogspot.com].
So, hacking by Westerners is not morally equivalent to hacking by Chinese or even Indians.
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Sorry but this outrage on the part of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the UK is so hypocritical.
Hacking, spying and even assassination is the currency of international politics and every single one of these countries has undoubtedly broken the law in the process.
Here in New Zealand, the courts have ruled on numerous occasions that NZ's spy agencies have acted "unlawfully" by spying on its citizens and the police have acted "unlawfully" by holding foreign nationals at gunpoint and taking their prop
slashdot censorship (Score:1)
Does CIA/NSA has / . on its payroll?
Damn, those communists (Score:1)
Damn, those communists are too good at capitalism.
NSA (Score:2)
purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies
Fortunately, NSA would not do this (hint: to Airbus, for Boeing)