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Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit

Posted by timothy on from the and-thanks-for-asking dept.

InfiniteZero writes "China has admitted for the first time that it had poured massive investment into the formation of a 30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors — a team supposedly trained to protect the People's Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks."

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  1. "Cyber Wizards" by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    what could be more 'cyber' than that?

    I put on my robe and wizard hat.
    I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
    I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite.

  2. Re:The best defense is a strong offense by couchslug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the US and China compete militarily, many people in BOTH Military-Industrial Complexes benefit.

    Keep it from being a shooting war and it's one fine welfare program for the beneficiaries.

    --
    "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
  3. Re:The best defense is a strong offense by wisty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Spoken Chinese is "highly contextual". (Which is a linguist's euphemism for "vague").

    "30" means "30 of whatever the logical unit is". 30 people. 30 platoons. 30 wan (= 30 * 10,000).

    Whatever.

    Point of interest, a very common Chinese phrase is "weishemenibugaosouwo" (I think that's spelled right). It means "Why didn't you tell me?"