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

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.

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  1. China is America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And America is China

    However, the bankers and elite European families who rule both of these countries love to stir the shit to propagate war/conflict for profit.

    You are a slave to these bankers who create these conflicts. Keep playing their propaganda game and getting fucked in your butthole like good sheeple :)

  2. Re:Oh FFS by hawguy · · Score: 1, Troll

    "This is what I was wearing when China stole my weapons schematics. Tell me I asked for it."

    Fuck off with your victim blaming, China. Pricks.

    Sometimes blaming the victim is warranted. If I park my Ferrari in a bad part of town with the windows open and a buck full of cash on the front seat, I don't have much room to complain when someone steals the cash (and maybe the car).

    Likewise, if I have top secret military blueprints that not even an average US citizen is allowed to view, if I don't lock up the data securely, then I really shouldn't whine when someone steals it. I knew the data was valuable, I knew people would want to steal it, so I should have locked it up more securely and the data certainly shouldn't have been available through the internet. Why wasn't the data air-gapped away from the public internet?