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The Secret China-U.S. Hacking War?
bored-at-IETF-ntp-session writes "In an article at eWeek Larry Seltzer examines the supposed hacking war between the US and China. He surmises 'Even if you can't prove that the government was involved ... it still bears some responsibility'. He quotes Gadi Evron who advised the Estonians during the Russian attacks. 'I can confirm targeted attacks with sophisticated technologies have been launched against obvious enemies of China ... Who is behind these attacks can't be easily said, but it can be an American cyber-criminal, a Nigerian spammer or the Chinese themselves.' Seltzer concluded 'It's just another espionage tool, and no more or less moral than others we've used in the past.'" This a subject we've also previously discussed.
in terms of morality is like talking about faith in terms of science
neither have anything to do with one another
sure, this remark of mine will invite obfuscating semantic gymanastics in an attempt to talk about faith in terms of science, or espionage in terms of morality. but when you come right down to it, the former are pretty much defined as exceptions to latter
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The modding today is way out of whack -- multiple threads where legitimate statements are modded Troll.
(BTW mods, this one is OffTopic. Thanks.)
Oh ya, all of this is offtopic :-) We are all throwing comments that will mod us all to offtopic hell (except you AC). Most mods don't really care that much about comments that sit at 2 unless they are pretty offensive though. This is why I ride at +5 and mod down anything that gets in my way :-)