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Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China
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."
for the international HACK CHINA outing ?
Isn't about time that everyone else gave China a taste of the Rat Crap they've been feeding the world. I'd say 2 billion people hacking at your firewall would send a message, not hat they would understand mind you...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
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Either the parent post has extremely fast typing skills, or it was a canned comment that happened to fit just right, or I am crazy. Story posted 12:01, comment posted 12:03. Wow, I am impressed.
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So Tiawan decides to use a weak OS, and its China's fault for attacking it? Ok, not defending China, but this is like blaming a shark for eating a kid who's bleeding off a rubber life-raft.
If Tiawan makes itself an easy victim, it shouldn't be suprised if it gets attacked. This is like a bank choosing to store all of its cash on the public sidewalk, unguarded at night, then complianing when someone steals. I'm sorry they stole it, but you were being stupid.
Windows has been insecure since the very day it was released (15 years ago, 'round about?), and everyone knows that. If they choose to use it anyway, they deserve to get hacked. Get a mission-critical-grade OS for mission-critical uses.
Sarcasm and hyperbole are the final refuges for weak minds
I swear man, the Chinese government is like the Borg. I would not be surprised if conflict goes up to and beyond full scale thermonuclear war between the US and China in the next hundred years or so.
As far as I'm concerned, they are actively trying to destroy democracy and acting in hostile manners to all sorts of countries, peoples, and policies. The human rights issues are heinous. Opression of their peoples and information. Remembering back to the American plane that was buzzed by a Chinese fighter jet, that incident was not too cool either. Let alone all the spam they send the US.
They're not a very far step above Saddam during his occupation of Kuwait. I recognize that the government is NOT the people of China. There will be a revolution, or a war. Mark my words.
To reiterate: "Frickin' Commie Pinko Bastards!"
I'm not trying to troll here but come on fishy fishy fishy...
Agreed. China is a threat to American security. However, Taiwan is also a threat. The Taiwanese actually support all the geopolitical objectives of China. Please read "Understanding Taiwan: Security Threat to USA"
Yes. The Taiwanese support the concept of voting for their president. However, the Taiwanese also support the geopolitical objectives of Beijing. The Taiwanese have told both Japan and the Philippines to back off from the Senkaku Islands and the Spratly Islands, repectively, because they are Chinese territory.
Please read "Reality of Taiwan".
Furhermore, mid-ranking officers retired from Taiwan's military have gone to Beijing to obtain lucrative jobs in exchange for revealing the performance characteristics of American weapons sold to Beijing. The report by the U. S. Department of State does not mention this fact because the purpose of that report is only to describe the state of human rights in Taiwan. The Taiwanese do indeed support integrating Tibet into mainland China. The Taiwanese education system teaches Taiwanese children that Tibet is part of China. It is hypocritical, and it is disgusting.
Finally, the report by the U. S. Department of State does not mention the fact that the Justice Department has placed Taiwan on a list of nations that are hostile intelligence threats. That list includes Syria and Libya.
Hellooo! Did you forget who is the main hero here? Should I remind everyone that it is possible only because Microsoft made it possible?
I hope Taiwan goverment will finally recognize the source of the problem and outlaw it on the territory of the iseland.
Less is more !
Oh JEEZUS!!!!! Tibet was a protectorate under imperial China for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Everybody wants to 'save' Tibet, but do you have any idea of the kinds of anal rape that little child 'priests' must undergo? Tibet isn't all smiles and prayer wheels, there's a serious, rape-oriented, pedophillic culture there that's actually quite sickening.