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Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Great by ttyp0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anything to stem the flood of SPAM from those two countries.

    Show your hate for SCO

  2. Personized News! by xanadu-xtroot.com · · 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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  3. Re:Isn't China making an OS with Japan and Korea? by Madsci · · 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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  4. Crouching Spammer Hidden Trojan! by Li0n · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Who's the bad guy again? by bpfinn · · 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.
  6. Under attack by harvey_peterson · · 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.

  7. A haiku by asbestos_lead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Turned on computer.
    It rebooted. China 0wns
    me. Blue screen now red.

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