Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat

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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Slashdot sensationalism

[SquarePixel]

Let's compare the two different stories that were going to be posted as authors duped.

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Worded quite differently, no? This published summary accuses the Chinese and Taiwanese government about it, while the other one just says they had concerns about their good relationships in the community.

Re:Slashdot sensationalism

[Monkeedude1212]

Indeed. I think it deserves a golf clap.

Even though this article tries to make me blame our Oriental cousins for pulling a talk about them, how many times has the States tried to brush things like Gitmo under the rug to the rest of the world, with reasoning along the line of "We know its bad, but it's a necessary evil in this day and age".

Even if they are right that it's necessary, its still two faced to think other countries shouldn't have their own skeletons.

Re:China’s Cyber Threat Growing

[ground.zero.612]

Actually, far from the enemy, China is the chief lender of money that keeps the US afloat. China is so tied to us economically the threat of them becoming our "enemy" is laughable.

This lending you speak of is the problem that got us where we are. Money lenders are villains, and borrowing is a disease that has infected the masses.

If they truly wanted to beat the US, all they would need to do is stop loaning the US money and cash in all of their debts to the US. But seeing they own a huge chunk of the US already, it is in their best economic interests to make sure the US is doing okay.

I think they do truly want to beat us, and I think lending us money was the first step on the path to defeating us. They could use the debt as puppet string to cause us to move how they want.

And lighten up Francis - pointing out that the US is good at propaganda (duh) does not make one a "hippie". Do you really think the US isn't good a propaganda, or do you have a quota of people you need to call "hippies" every day? Or do you just think anyone to the left of Glenn Beck is an "ultra-liberal"?

Hippies are notorious enemy sympathizers. I'm too lazy to google a huge list of well known hippy enemy sympathizers for you, especially hippies from the Cold War era. The word "hippy" is shorter and easier to write out than "enemy sympathizer". Honestly, I just don't like liberals, period. Those of you that attempt to garner sympathy and empathy from me to share with my enemies, well, you are my enemies as well.