US Hacked Chinese University Network

An anonymous reader writes "Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports that Tsinghua University, widely regarded as the mainland's top education and research institute, was the target of extensive hacking by U.S. spies this year, according to information leaked by Edward Snowden. The information also showed that the attacks on Tsinghua University were intensive and concerted efforts. In one single day of January, at least 63 computers and servers in Tsinghua University have been hacked by the NSA. The university is home to one of the mainland's six major backbone networks, the China Education and Research Network from where internet data from millions of Chinese citizens could be mined. Universities in Hong Kong and the mainland were revealed as targets of NSA's cyber-snooping activities last week when Snowden claimed the Chinese University of Hong Kong had been hacked." The U.S. government is reportedly hacking into Chinese mobile phone companies as well for access to text messages. In related news, the U.S. has asked Hong Kong to extradite Snowden, and the petition to pardon him has met that 100,000 signature threshold required for an official response from the administration.

Comments

This just proves Snowden is working for red China

[Su27K]

You can argue that exposing NSA's domestic spying operation is for the good of US people, but exposing hacking of a Chinese university serves no US interests whatsoever, it only gives China the moral high ground to continue its cyber attack against the US. If this is not planned by the central committee of the communist party, I don't know what is.

I was entirely sympathetic to Snowden

[Bruce66423]

When he was revealing actions by the US government that were clearly unconstitutional - at least on any reasonable reading of the constitution - then he could legitimately claim the status of whistleblower. But to reveal the intelligence gathering activities of your own government that are aimed at those who are clearly your enemies is an act of treachery. Which is a disaster, because it reduce the odds of the criminal actions of the Bush/Obama government being challenged, let alone punished.

Re:**WHO** is the real traitor ?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

China is about as much communist these days as the US is a democratic free state in the spirit of the Founding Fathers. Also, your still have that "IP", go put it to some good use. And also, "remaining the sole superpower" is difficult when the horse has already left the barn. Tough luck.

Re:**WHO** is the real traitor ?

[cold fjord]

China is firmly under the control of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, a one party communist country that is allowing some free enterprise due to reforms following the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution that managed to help them kill 70,000,000 people or so. Lenin did the same thing back in the 1920s under the New Economic Policy. It didn't last in the Soviet Union. It may not last in China.

The United States is still very much a free, democratic society.

The problem isn't horses there, its bull.