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China's Foreign Ministry: China Did Not Attack Github, We Are the Major Victims

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-wasn't-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes At the Regular Press Conference on March 30, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying responded on the charge of DDoS attack over Github. She said: "It is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it. I'd like to remind you that China is one of the major victims of cyber attacks. We have been underlining that China hopes to work with the international community to speed up the making of international rules and jointly keep the cyber space peaceful, secure, open and cooperative. It is hoped that all parties can work in concert to address hacker attacks in a positive and constructive manner."

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  1. Plausible Deniability by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    except in this case it's not so plausible.

    On the other hand NSA denying it created Stuxnet isn't all that plausible either.

    1. Re:Plausible Deniability by HiThere · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, it's actually quite plausible. That doesn't mean you should believe it. Lots of things are believable that aren't true.

      The interesting thing is, I can't think of how they could either make it believable that they did it or that they didn't do it. In some things there are no good grounds for having a belief in either (any) direction.

      The thing is, all the governments I've paid any attention to lie so often that you would do well to use a roulette wheel to decide HOW they are lying in any particular statement. And "They're telling the truth" would be the 00 slot of the wheel. But belief should occur only when there is reasonably grounded evidence...and then it shouldn't be committed belief, because governments are quite able to fabricate evidence when they find it worth the effort.

      --

      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
  2. Translation: by Verloc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We are not hacking because we get hacked a lot"

    The 'logic' here is... not good.

    1. Re:Translation: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's not their logic that is not good, it's your summary that is not good. They aren't saying that the fact that they get hacked a lot proves that they don't hack. They're saying that a lot of people jump to the conclusion that any hacking incident must be from China in spite of the fact that they're are a lot of hackers are from outside of China. The point of saying that they are often the victim of hacking is to emphasize that there are non-Chinese hackers.

  3. Re:Proof by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Neither side has presented any convincing evidence. This is just going to keep happening because it's so hard to accurately trace cyber attacks.

    --
    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  4. Hilarious defense by MikeRT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your honor, I'd like to remind you that as a member of the Crips, my client is constantly facing risks to his life including up to being gunned down in the street. Therefore he clearly could not have committed that drive by shooting of the Bloods.