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China Criticizes US For Making Weapon Plans Steal-able, Alleges Attacks From US

Posted by Soulskill on from the determining-intent dept.

Etherwalk writes "Huang Chengqing, China's top internet security official, alleged that cyberattacks on China from people in the U.S. are as serious as those from China on the U.S. 'We have mountains of data, if we wanted to accuse the U.S., but it's not helpful in solving the problem.' Huang, however, does not necessarily attribute them to the U.S. government just because they came from U.S. soil, and he thinks Washington should extend the same courtesy. 'They advocated cases that they never let us know about. Some cases can be addressed if they had talked to us, why not let us know? It is not a constructive train of thought to solve problems.' In response to the recent theft of U.S. military designs, he replied with an observation whose obviousness is worthy of Captain Hammer: 'Even following the general principle of secret-keeping, it should not have been linked to the Internet.'" A few experts think China's more cooperative attitude has come about precisely because the U.S. government has gone public with hacking allegations.

6 of 209 comments (clear)

  1. Re:um? by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least we're not Britain. I mean, seriously, what kind of permissions is 007 for a spy?

  2. Re:um? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as the low-order bit is set, he has execute permission.

    What's the problem?

  3. Re:um? by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least we're not Britain. I mean, seriously, what kind of permissions is 007 for a spy?

    Plausible deniability?

    --
    When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
  4. Re:um? by blane.bramble · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like perfect ones to me - read, write and execute everyone except himself and his group.

  5. Then sic the RIAA on them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the RIAA, that's worse.

  6. US Infosec Incompetence summed up in one sentence! by endus · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Even following the general principle of secret-keeping, it should not have been linked to the Internet.'"

    You think so??? Really? This is a novel concept to our American Information Security Industry, please, tell us more! Surely you don't mean that power plants and water treatment facilities and power grids and other sensitive facilities should not be linked to the internet...HOW THE FUCK ARE THE OPERATORS GOING TO GET TO FACEBOOK IF WE DISCONNECT THEM!?!?!?!?