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China Expresses Concern at Revelations in Wikileaks Dump of Hacked CIA Data (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the concerns-rise dept.

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.

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  1. China should worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps China should be *more* worried about the people who hacked the CIA, rather than the CIA? If there are all these security holes in Chinese made kit, then the Russians will be exploiting them just as much as the CIA.

    1. Re:China should worry by gnick · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Perhaps China should be *more* worried about the people who hacked the CIA, rather than the CIA?

      Maybe, but I think it's far more likely to be a leak than a hack.

      If there are all these security holes in Chinese made kit, then the Russians will be exploiting them just as much as the CIA.

      Well, the Russians now know about these vulnerabilities as well as the ones they've discovered on their own - Just like every other country with a cyber-warfare division. You have to assume that there was some overlap - The Russians were likely already exploiting some of these holes. The big difference now is that we have a large number of cards on the table. Oops.

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  2. Re:Tough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As a Canadian, it's become harder and harder to decide which country is the least hostile between the U.S.A., China and Russia.

    I like most Americans, but your government? Yuck.

    Then you're an idiot. The Senators and Congressmen/women are the expression of the American electorate. The only difference is that they are rich while more than half the country is not. Americans are bastard racists, imperialists and hell bent on world domination (if not through direct military intervention then through economic coercion or putting military bases in countries whose people are against it). It's like the Google "do no evil" mantra. Americans do evil in the world, it's just their stupid infotainment propagando doesn't inform them at all.

  3. Re:...... what? by gnick · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's sure the way it seems. This is an obvious case of pot/kettle. I'm sure our response would be the same if the tables were turned. We all act shocked when the other guy is exposed for the same activities that intelligence agencies all over the world surely take part in. The Chinese stand out because the economic espionage is so prevalent.

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    He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
  4. Try being over here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm now getting hate from Liberals and Conservatives alike for being a moderate. It got lost in all the 'OMG Libtards going APESHIT' 'Conservatives rubbing it in Libtards faces' drama the media was pushing, but the major concern of the election shouldn't have been who won, it was that the popular vote was ALMOST EVENLY DIVIDED ACROSS PARTY LINES.

    That should have recieved a lot more discussion, and a small bit of it was coming out recently: Liberals and conservatives have dramatically different ideas of what America should be, and the two sides have been growing more polarized each year. It is getting to a point where for America to function there either needs to be a second civil war, a constitutional referendum, or a mass migration and secession movement as the country's inhabitants reorganize themselves into liberal and conservative strongholds and formally separate. The current situation has been coming for at least 150 years (and depending on who you ask, for as long as the colonies have existed.)