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Pledge Asks Chinese Hackers To Reject Cybertheft

Posted by Soulskill on from the honor-among-cyberthieves dept.

angry tapir writes "Two prominent Chinese hackers have released a convention calling for the rejection of cybertheft and are asking their peers to support it, as China is increasingly seen as the source of international hacking attacks. The two hackers, Gong Wei and Wan Tao, released their 'Hackers' Self-Discipline Convention' to the Chinese media and posted its contents on the Internet. The hackers declined to offer further comment, but the document presents itself as a moral code that outlines appropriate hacking activities. The document states that hackers will not obtain money through stealing from the public. Hacking groups will also not spread knowledge or tools that are meant to take income. 'The public's privacy, especially that of children and minors, will be protected,' the document says. Any activity to buy or sell people's private information is considered inappropriate."

7 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. original article is in chinese by excelsior_gr · · Score: 2

    lacking a better translation, here is one from Google:
    http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chowngroup.com%2Fconvention.html

  2. This is a good thing by satuon · · Score: 2

    Inasmuch as it shows that there are ethical people in China. We need reminding that good people can be found in China - not all of them are evil, which is the impression you get from news.

    1. Re:This is a good thing by slashdime · · Score: 2

      Inasmuch as it shows that there are ethical people in China. We need reminding that good people can be found in China - not all of them are evil, which is the impression you get from news.

      If you need reminding that there are good [insert class/culture/race/country here] people, what you need is not rely on the "impression you get from news" and do your own fucking research. Stop being good "sheeple".

    2. Re:This is a good thing by cavreader · · Score: 3, Informative

      I found my trip to China very enlightening when it came to interacting with the actual citizens. The people I encountered during my 3 week stay were friendly and showed no disdain or animosity towards me even when they found out I was from the US. Granted there are billions of Chinese citizens so my experiences do not carry much weight but I enjoyed the visit. I encountered the exact opposite experience when I was in France, England, and Germany. The people I met there were quite eager to point out all of the US faults. Once I explained I wasn't the one running things in the US and kindly told them to shut the fuck up before I demonstrated the stereotypical American propensity towards using violence to settle any disagreements they seemed to warm up considerably.

  3. Re:white hat vs black hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the chinese wore conical straw hats

  4. Re:white hat vs black hat by RoFLKOPTr · · Score: 4, Funny

    They paint them.

  5. Re:Good luck with that by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

    Black hat hackers will sign it and stay evil, with the benefit of appearing good.

    Uh no. Only dumbasses of any hat color will sign it. Getting put on a registered list of hackers? Only a total moron would do this intentionally.

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