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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 solution is obvious, get a 'computer' that can't be hijacked to be used as part of a botnet, to launch DDOS attacks, to me co-opted in a spam farm, to be used to steal online identity and steal all your money from your bank account.
I think I've got a calculator watch somewhere that might meet your qualifications.
Seriously, if you think there is anything capable of being connected to the Internet that "cannot" be used for any of this nefarious crap, you're either seriously delusional, or woefully uneducated in security.
Everything can be hacked somehow. If it's got a network port with a cable plugged into it, and that cable allows physical (logical connection not necessary - only physical) connection with the Internet somewhere along the line, then it can be hacked and abused.
Sure, there are systems that are more resistant than others, but everything is vulnerable to some degree.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Are you kidding?
Many European cars fail American crash safety standards. U.S. flights are equally or more safe than the global average. The food supply is quite safe (waiter snot is probably the biggest thing to worry about, not shit in your cabbage).
As far as the environment, you go swim in a river in China and I will swim in 20 rivers in the U.S.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
The chinese are just as nationalistic as any other group. Do they like how their gov operates? I doubt it.
Excuse me, but that statement merely demonstrates ignorance of Chinese culture and history. The Chinese have a long history of authoritarian governments in one form or another from emperors and kings to the present central committee of the Communist Party. This authoritarian bent, or at least deference to and respect for authority, is deeply instilled in their cultural heritage through traditions of ancestral worship, social primacy of elders, and the teachings of Confucius. Most Chinese people today would agree with the statement that some individual freedoms and privileges must be given up for the greater good of the social order (i.e. they like a strong and strict central government). It is therefore a simple matter for the government to get into contact with intensely loyal citizens, who have been indoctrinated from an early age, and convince them that their oppression has served a special purpose to toughen and harden them into an elite instrument so that they may now serve the state (i.e. their parent) which has done so much for them (similar to the Sardaukar of the Dune Universe).
Are you kidding?
Many European cars fail American crash safety standards.
Are YOU kidding? Its more like many US cars fair EUROPEAN safety standards. You don't even have ncap safety ratings for your cars. Tests performed a few years ago showed that the avarage european drives a car thats almost twice as safe in a carsh as an american car! Just because your cars are bigger, dose not make them better.