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Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar
An anonymous reader writes "A Chinese military propaganda video aired in mid-July inadvertently showed a Chinese military university launching cyberattacks against U.S. websites. The Epoch Times reports the video shows 'custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university.' A screen in the video also reveals 'the name of the software and the Chinese university that built it, the Electrical Engineering University of China's People's Liberation Army.'"
Apparently China's best and brightest hackers need a GUI with drop-down menus and a big "Attack" button.
The sleeping dragon is strong indeed. I wonder if they have a "Pull trigger to fire" sticker on their rifles too.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Because I'm so fucking awesome I can now post into the future.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Okay, actually, this article was originally posted at about 2 pm, but got bumped for the earthquake story. I got the one comment in before it got bumped, apparently.
But I'm still fucking awesome.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
And I read his comment right after he posted it, tried to reply, and it was rejected due to an "unknown error". Then the entire article disappeared for an hour.
I was beginning to think Chinese hackers took it down...
There's one detail to bear in mind when you read the article from The Epoch Times.
From wikipedia: The The Epoch Times was founded in 1999 by supporters of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline. [...] The newspaper is heavily critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and policies of the Chinese government.
A fair number of Chinese students seem to buy into the official party line, part and parcel. Over the past few years we've had some small demonstrations at the University of Washington by these students, protesting US media "lies" regarding Falung Gong, Tibet and/or the Dalai Lama, etc.
#DeleteChrome
Falun Gong calls attention to how the Chinese Communist Party acts in opposition to many traditional Chinese values. This is incredibly seditious considering that the CCP relies on the Chinese achieving more or less blind unity based on what are pushed as shared cultural values.
I was recently watching a CCTV documentary on the Seven Scholars of the Bamboo Grove, and like everything on CCTV I always start wondering 'what is their political angle?' And sure enough, they were primarily focusing on the Seven Scholars deliberate avoidance in politics and how that preserved them when others were being purged for their intrigues. The CCP wants people to avoid politics as much as possible, which includes any criticism of the government.
Falun Gong questions the morality of the government and the CCP within the tradition three dimensional contexts of Chinese morality: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Even though China is a very secular society, these criticisms are very seriously taken by the CCP, which is always living in fear of losing control.
If you're really interested you could look into the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (which is banned in China) and the Tuidang Movement. Both of which are sourced in Falun Gong and do have an air of propaganda to them at times, but a thinking person can still find useful information even among such chaff.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
actually, if they hit DC, we just declare the disaster so severe that the united states no longer exists -- they killed the beast! -- and then pick up right where we left off with USA2.
Minus all our debt to them.
Because that was USA1.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
I don't like religions either, but if the choice is freedom and religion or neither, I'll keep on tolerating religion.
People may be wrong, but to force them to be right through prosecuting thought crimes is a disgusting dystopia that I will not accept.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit