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US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies (reuters.com)
U.S. authorities on Thursday unveiled indictments against two Chinese nationals linked to China's government who took part in a cyber spying campaign that hacked a range of American government agencies and corporations and violated a 2015 pact, escalating tensions between the two nations. From a report: The U.S. Justice Department charged Zhu Hua and Zhang Jianguo in computer hacking attacks on the U.S. Navy, the space agency NASA and businesses in numerous sectors. The defendants hacked computers to steal intellectual property and confidential business and technological data, according to the indictment. U.S. and British authorities on Thursday also condemned China for violating 2015 agreements to curb cyber espionage for business purposes, slamming Chinese efforts to steal other countries' trade secrets and technologies and to compromise government computers.
I would have figured this was a very common incident, with the US routinely catching Chinese spies and China routinely catching US spies. It's not like any large countries don't practice espionage. Is this just public relations and politics or is catching spies really that rare?
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
thanks Trump you dick.
If something wrong was done then one should accept punishment, and that should be the same for both sides. You can't do something wrong and feel entitled to get away with it.
China executed dozens of CIA assets and all you can do is lock up a few loose ends?
Common AF lately, spies getting caught by the US intelligence agencies. Even Trump is facing similar indictments, along with every single traitor in his family of frauds and inbred goons.
China has been pulling this crap as far back as I can remember
You gotta ask if nothing else why wasn't something done when China hacked the government Office of Personnel Management
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The weirdos who started BSD once had one kernel. Then they kept fighting with each other until it was split between a half-dozen incompatible kernels. But of all the fragments, I'd say NetBSD is the worst. It is so far behind the times that it will never catch up. Some subsystems are sort of current, others are ancient and full of bit rot. And really, the number of real users of NetBSD can be counted as maybe 100 or 200 max. Bad shit, amigo. Bad shit.
Refuses to share freely we depend upon acts like this in order to help spread technology and information. if we waited for those companies and governments to share of their own accord .we be holding our breath forever. and when the United States has fallen and the company records have been blown up it sure would be nice if this technology all wasn't lost
"cyber-spies" don't put their full name and details of their activities on the internet for people to see. The U.S. just identifies important people in foreign governments and indicts them, as a way of randomly throwing a wrench into the works, hoping to cause dissension and some internal conflict.
You look at so much technology that China has stolen or claimed through espionage and you wonder what China has over the US that causes our government to do nothing? Could it be that China holds much of our debt, or that China has over the many decades been buying up assets in the US. Or that over time China has built up a formidable military in the Asian region? Could it be the US is just China's bitch.
Do they get executed, hanged, or sent back to China in a box?
US gets a taste of its own medicine and cries. How cute.
So how do the Americans actually figure out the real names of the two hackers without either hacking and spying China? It is not that hackers like to leave their real name around.
Or maybe they should be charged with selling WMDs to Iraq instead. That would foll us to spend a couple trillion dollars last time.
The USA is the great Satan and a terrible country. It should be spied on but not allowed to send their own spies out.
America sends home 100+ Chinese spies each year (and that was just 12 years ago). It is kept quiet but we capture them all the time.
God, the Russian spambot troll is back. Ivan you need a REAL job, have you considered felating Vladimir Putin? Donald Trump says you get over the salty taste right away, it's actually delicious.
But why only two?
Two Chinese cyber spying stories on the front page, what gives, is slashdot trying to become the Faux News of the internet?
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