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Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-cyber-army? dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A talk on China's state-sponsored offensive security efforts scheduled for the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this month has been pulled after concerns were raised by people within the Chinese and Taiwanese government about the talk's content. The presentation was to be delivered by Wayne Huang, CTO of Armorize, an application security company with R&D operations in Taiwan. The talk was billed as an in-depth, historical look at the offensive capabilities and operations of China's so-called cyber-army."

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  1. they did WHAT? by v1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Black Hat conference cancelled one of their talks due to political pressure? Wow. I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this" forums?

    Usually one would ridicule other conferences with something like "Do you see Black Hat canceling like this? Grow a pair!" But this is just depressing. Guess Black Hat is experiencing some "shrinkage".

    Next thing you know they're going to be cowering over trumped up Cease and Desist orders.

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    1. Re:they did WHAT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Actually "they" kind of bill Black Hat as the "legitimate" side of the conferences going on there that week. That was the feeling I got when I went there a few years ago anyway. Dofcon, on the other hand, tends to be a little more on the shady side. Although since Defcon moved to the Riviera I do recall them asking everyone to take it easy on that venue the first year.

  2. Re:Slashdot sensationalism by abigor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds pretty much the same to me. If you think the Chinese "security community" is somehow separate from the Chinese government, you are dreaming.

  3. Re:Slashdot sensationalism by Dishevel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I actually like the unedited version of that video better. Wikileaks did a serious fail on that one. I like them too. *Sigh*

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  4. Re:China’s Cyber Threat Growing by jgtg32a · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do people think that China can just call in their loan?Most of that money is in treasury bonds, and they've also sold off a lot of it and now we are "owned" by the Japanese again.
     
    http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100217/BUSINESS/702179898/1005

  5. Re:China’s Cyber Threat Growing by __aaxtnf2500 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That line of thinking is informed purely by ignorance of Chinese defense planning and funding. How do you explain billions of Chinese weapons R&D on projects designed specifically to defeat combat platforms that only the US deploys?