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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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Re:Trojan, or propaganda? by ucsckevin · 2003-09-05 05:36 · Score: 5, Informative

As a former resident of taiwan (2 years), I can say this:
Taiwan is just as free/democratic as the US. Taiwan has a free press, a former minority party in charge, large voter populace, and more informed voters. There's marches and protests against the government all the time. As for pirated software...uh, um...