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Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks
courteaudotbiz writes "Canada and all members of the U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand) state that they all suffered government-directed attacks between June and September 2007. These seemed to be Chinese government sponsored attacks." It's a Google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months.
The bullies always pick on the slower kids.
When is the US going to "Cyber invade" China? I'm not sure how exactly they would do it but I'm guessing it would involve telling people that they export viruses of mass destruction, letting people know it'll take a day or 2 to get the Chinese servers in line, and the backbones there will welcome them with open arms. The US will then be there for a month or 2 before they get someone in the government to call it off leaving the Chinese networks in the hands of a few ISP "Warlords" for a few years...
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What are the U5 nations? The article didn't say, and Google wasn't much help. I'm not used to seeing NZ in the short-list for anything, especially not with USA, France and Germany.
Anyone know what that group is?
OK, OK I didn't RTFA. My way's better.
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It's a google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months.
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I'm surprised Google can do it at all. Removing the "u" from words like "color" is easy enough. But the hostile subtext in the Canadian niceness and politeness is hard for machines to render into American.
The further you get from the border, the harder it is to understand. Of course Canadians will deny it. But they'll do it politely.
They have standards? ;)
But more serious, this post has Australia in the list.
sound like they have a "u" or "yoo" in them somewhere...
Yoo-knighted-sutates...
Can-u-dah...
Furansu (if hailing from Korea or Japan...)...
Yoo-knighted-king-dum
Germ-u-knee...
What is probably yoo-s-ful to consider is that Can-u-da probably hasn't really colun-ized any other sove-run nation... LOL!
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The Canadian government has been the victim of a massive cyber in June and July 2007.
That's true. The problem with militaries thinking in this manner is that the internet has become essential for the operation of the civilian industrialized world.
This probably explains why governments haven't retaliated against hacking with DoS attacks: it would lead to reprisals and a state of mutually assured internets destruction. Which I like to call "MAID".
Even TFA doesn't include France and Germany in this "U5" boy band thing or whatever it is.
Welcome to Slashdot, where even the submitter doesn't need to RTFA.