Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China

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Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China

Posted by michael on Friday September 5, 2003 @05:01AM from the batten-down-the-firewalls dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting this morning that Taipei is under cyber attack by a Chinese 'army of hackers'. The Taipei government is saying that the attacks are trojan-horses against windows machines that are being staged to break in to government databases."

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Isn't China making an OS with Japan and Korea? by Thinkit3 · 2003-09-05 05:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe they're just trying to undermine Windows by attacking it.

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1. Re:Isn't China making an OS with Japan and Korea? by Madsci · 2003-09-05 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Right, because China cares so much more about OSs than Taiwan. Thats why they have nukes aimed at Redmond.
  
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Great by ttyp0 · 2003-09-05 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Anything to stem the flood of SPAM from those two countries.
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Personized News! by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-09-05 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Yu made the remark yesterday morning during the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting, in which Minister without Portfolio Tsai Ching-yen briefed Yu on the matter.

I hadn't realized that I talked with China or Tiawan latley.

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Another kind of cyber-attack by PhoenixK7 · 2003-09-05 05:04 · Score: 4, Funny

They're under another kind of cyber attack now. Can't get through to the linked website.
Crouching Spammer Hidden Trojan! by Li0n · 2003-09-05 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I fully expect this on the big screen in a few years.

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What's the matter... by chill · 2003-09-05 05:09 · Score: 4, Funny

...couldn't they just impersonate techs, walk in and grab the government mainframes? :-)

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Re:Trojan, or propaganda? by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-09-05 05:10 · Score: 4, Funny

By the time I typed this comment, the number had not changed, so I'm probably getting a cached copy. What did it show when you hit it?
Timeout on server
Connection was to www.taipeitimes.com at port 80

heh :-)

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pirated anime?! by deft · 2003-09-05 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Only on slashdot are Civil rights violations mentioned in the same sentence as pirated anime of all things.

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Re:Trojan, or propaganda? by mrtroy · 2003-09-05 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Not necessarily static text.

If something like a php counter is being used...it could by dynamic and you wouldnt know.

However, the non changing number makes it look quite static :)

My personal counter shows similarly to the average "view sourcer" but magic php elves make it += every hit!

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childhood song by segment · 2003-09-05 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

me chinese me play trick me ping -f'in on your nick

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Who's the bad guy again? by bpfinn · 2003-09-05 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny
- China runs Red Flag Linux. Yea!
- China (allegedly) "cyber"-attacks Taiwan. Boo!
- Taiwan is relatively more free than China. Yea!
- Taiwan runs Windows. Boo!
Please help me decide who to cheer for.
prepping them by Thinkit3 · 2003-09-05 05:27 · Score: 4, Funny

So after they do nuke, the computers that survive won't be running Windows.

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Under attack by harvey_peterson · 2003-09-05 05:30 · Score: 5, Funny

This just in...

The Taipei Times is under attack from a group of computer experts in the United States. The group, calling themselves Slashdot, have bombarded the Taipei website with so many hits, that it cannot distribute web pages anymore.

More on this story at eleven.
Re:Regardless of the implications... by bnavarro · 2003-09-05 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Funny how my posts get ranked (-1, Troll) five times as often when I throw the "Esq." at the end of my name.

Man! so that's why my karma's suddenly in the toilet! Makes so much sense!

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A haiku by asbestos_lead · 2003-09-05 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Turned on computer.
It rebooted. China 0wns
me. Blue screen now red.

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