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Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Black-Hats
An anonymous reader sends us to Popular Science for a long article on the loose, uncoordinated bands of patriotic Chinese hackers that seem to be responsible for much of the cyber-trouble emerging from that nation. Quoting: "For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China's government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it's more than that: it's hundreds of thousands of everyday Chinese civilians. ... Jack Linchuan Qiu, a communications professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong [says:] 'Chinese hackerism is not the American "hacktivism" that wants social change. It's actually very close to the state. The Chinese distinction between the private and public domains is very small.' ... According to [James Andrew Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies], 'The government at a minimum tolerates them. Sometimes it encourages them. And sometimes it tasks them and controls them.' In the end, he says, 'it's easy for the government to turn on and hard to turn off.'"
The problem is, the idiots that control said vulnerable and exposed systems are either doing it with our money, or feel that they should be able to put anything on the Internet, and it's completely the other guy's fault for hacking it.
Nobody in the west takes this shit seriously enough.
Nobody.
* Except maybe Bruce....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
The upside is that we are quite a bit more likely to benefit from Chinese advancements than we are to be hurt by them.
I wish that were true. At this time, China is gearing up for war, not defense. For example, they have announced SEVERAL space stations. The first is the one that we know about. It is to be run by the CNSA which is controlled by the PLA. HOWEVER, the PLA has announced a new space station that will be pure military only. It also appears that they will have multiples of these. What use is a space station to the PLA? Not survelence. Far better and cheaper to have remote controlled sats. The ONLY use is to hide what is going on and make it easy to change systems. It is not communications or surveylence, and human testing is going on in the project 921 (CNSA's upcoming space station).
We live in interesting times.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
China's economy is wholly dependent on our economy. The minute we stop importing from the Chinese, their economy will tank. The workers of China will revolt from loss of work, while the US will have a huge demand for increased production, creating huge job opportunities. Yes, stuff will get more expensive for a little while, but our economy will be easier to fix than theirs, since our demand for goods would increase demand for workers to produce the goods, while their surplus supply of workers will push wages down, skyrocket unemployment, and generally destroy their GDP. With that many unemployed workers, the country would likely collapse.
The only problem then will be the massive debt that we owe them. However, with more goods being generated nationally and more services moving that money around within our country, our GDP will jump significantly, and will most likely help pay off some of the debt. We can only hope that China won't look to World War III to "save" them from their own great depression at that time, especially given our extremely hostile economic tactics that would put them in that situation.