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China Expresses Concern at Revelations in Wikileaks Dump of Hacked CIA Data (reuters.com)
China has expressed concern over revelations in a trove of data released by Wikileaks purporting to show that the CIA can hack all manner of devices, including those made by Chinese companies. From a report on Reuters: Dozens of firms rushed to contain the damage from possible security weak points following the anti-secrecy organization's revelations, although some said they needed more details of what the U.S. intelligence agency was up to. Widely-used routers from Silicon Valley-based Cisco were listed as targets, as were those supplied by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE and Taiwan supplier Zyxel for their devices used in China and Pakistan. "We urge the U.S. side to stop listening in, monitoring, stealing secrets and internet hacking against China and other countries," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing.
Dude, your govt is just as guilty. They are part of Five Eyes. Have you never heard of any of this stuff?
Every major country spies - even Canada (ever hear of CSIS? https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/in... ).
The real question is what they do with the information they're looking for. Do they conduct industrial espionage and give/sell it to companies who then can crush the competition? http://www.afr.com/technology/... (Note, not conclusively proven, but pretty scary potential example nonetheless, and a Canada-centric one at that)
Do they use it to try and influence democratic elections and destabilize peaceful political blocs, like Russia has been (and not just America - go look at France, or Germany, and their election troubles with the Russians).
Now I certainly won't claim the CIA, and US Government more generally, haven't done some f*cked up shit in the past (Iran/Persia, Central America, etc), but do try to keep some perspective on things.