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US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

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.

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  1. Isn't this common? by ranton · · Score: 2

    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?

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    1. Re:Isn't this common? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What are we going to steal from China, anyway? The best methods of poisoning infants with plastic additives? Why would you say it's equal when they have nothing we want? Moreover US spies stick out like a sore thumb in China.

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    2. Re:Isn't this common? by benjfowler · · Score: 1

      Do you defend China stealing $US 1 trillion worth of IP then? Do you believe China has the right to steal other peoples' hard work and investment?

    3. Re:Isn't this common? by benjfowler · · Score: 1

      It wouldn't surprise me, that with China's notions of "face", and CCP desperately trying to retain legitimacy, that China is actually in much deeper shit than they're making out. It wouldn't be wise to count on it though.

    4. Re:Isn't this common? by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      Did you know every criminal act by an American outside of the USA, is actually a criminal act of the US government, they are all linked to the US government, provable, they are citizens. Of course no member of the CIA or NSA or FBI etc has ever, committed a criminal act overseas.

      Things are competitive the globe over, sure the government of China will do stuff, less than the US or it's corporations but also individuals in China will commit criminal acts in the rest of the world, regardless of who they are meant to be working at the time.

      Want better outcomes though, you have to work with other governments and not against them. Work against them and well, they wont care, what crimes their citizens commit in your country. USA stop dragging Australia into your bullshit, all you have done is turn Australia's rep into shit and made any comments you force them to make utterly pointless, not independent but foreign policy vassal state. The USA keeps going to that well, long after it has become bone dry, complete waste of fucking time and fuck with Australian trade with China and cripple the Australian economy and no part of the US economy is Australia will be safe, fucking none.

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    5. Re:Isn't this common? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      LOL without the US alliance, Australia would be a colony of China. Check that, a colony of Indonesia. Australian navy is weak and it wouldn't take much for Indonesia to offload double the population of Australia in a boatlift. Indonesia wouldn't even notice they'd gone. You're welcome for the free US Navy protection. Ungrateful assholes.

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    6. Re:Isn't this common? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      I'm not a big fan of IP. The US is just as bad as China IMHO, it's just that it goes about it differently. Ridiculously long copyrights that steal from the public domain, DRM and the DMCA that steals from consumers, corrupt and unreasonable patent system...

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  2. Well thats about 30 years late by Crashmarik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:"Indicts" by ranton · · Score: 1

    Do you mean CIA operatives? Because CIA assets would things like cars, property, etc.

    In intelligence, assets are persons within organizations or countries being spied upon who provide information for an outside spy. They are sometimes referred to as agents, and in law enforcement parlance, as confidential informants, or "CIs" for short (source).

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  4. Re:This is becoming more common lately, true. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Nobody asked about your trump fixation you spastic faggot.

  5. Pot calling kettle black? by hackingbear · · Score: 1

    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.

  6. Re:This is becoming more common lately, true. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I'm glad Trump being president enrages you. It does, spastic faggot. You sputter about Donald Trump like a fucking assraped bitch all day, faggot.