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Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree (zdnet.com)
A day after the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals for being members of a state-sponsored hacking group and accused the Chinese government of orchestrating a string of hacks around the world, five other governments have stepped in with similar accusations. From a report: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK have published official statements today formally blaming China of hacking their government agencies and local companies. All statements are in regards to the supposed involvement of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) in supporting the activity of a hacking group known as APT10. In a DOJ indictment yesterday, the US says this group hacked companies in 12 countries, and later breached cloud service providers, wormed through their infrastructure, and hacked even more companies. US officials said the primary purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies, helping create an unfair advantage for local firms on the global market.
spent half the time and energy securing their resources as they do whining about people stealing them we would not have an issue.
Obviously, I don't know what our security agencies get up to.but it seems that we have a cyber-war going on that is being fought by only one side.
I wonder how many dead-in-the-brain Trump supporters will extend their defense of Russia's hacking crimes to China, using the exact same bullshit arguments? (*Grabs popcorn)
Are you speaking to Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK as a group here on slashdot? Derp. Your issue is comprehension of the issue. Fuck off moron, your first post whining adds nothing.
So the ECHELON countries are crying they are being hacked.
Wow, the irony.
I went out to *BSD's grave on Decoration Day. The old forgotten cemetery is to be found adjacent to the dark woods beyond the edge of town. There within olfactory distance of the municipal treatment plant you will find *BSD's final resting place.
*BSD's tombstone was shrouded by thick mosses and knots of noxious ivy. A mournful funerary crow sounded the requiem, as I gently pulled aside the tangled twists of thorns, and cleaned the decaying marker the best I could. A suffocating melancholia filled my heart, while I pondered that this indeed was *BSD's figurative charnel house of which so many have plaintively spoken.
Nothing is so pitiful as an untended grave, a loved one now forgotten. The short sad life of this doomed and fated OS makes us realize that there but for the grace of God go all of us.
I planted some wilting marigolds, found discarded in the waste heap behind the caretaker's shack, wishing that by some miracle these fleurs de mort might take root and bring a modicum of cheer to *BSD's God forsaken plot. My fervent hope is that the torpid colored boy, who so carelessly mows the grounds, doesn't slice them down, inadvertently mirroring *BSD's own doomed encounter with death's irresistible scythe.
Funny how things work out. Linux, that brilliant nova stella, now runs the Internet and the world's fastest computers, while *BSD lies moldering within its forgotten crypt. Let the barren silence of *BSD's tomb be a mute reminder that hubris and braggadocio were no defense on that woeful day when the Angel of Death's bleak umbra was cast upon *BSD.
Time to unplug China from the rest of the world.
We should find and EXECUTE any known persons who do this regardless if they acted alone, with a group, or state-backed.
Yup, it would start a real war. The average person has no clue any of this state-sponsored espionage is an every day thing.
Start executing people for doing it and the world would maybe see what is exactly happening.
Fuck, why are governments so fucking shitty and evil.
I understand it is never going to stop, but the idealist in me knows and longs for a better world.
I kinda secretly wish all governments would spiral into failure and the world economy would just cease to be a thing.
trump should say any one hacking china will get an auto pardon.
I guess the false flag operations are working.
All governments conduct or sponsor hacking. The principal difference between the United States and China is that American hacking is subject to review by the judicial branch of government. Hence, the American Civil Liberties Union can sue Washington to curb American hacking or to expose its extent.
Chinese hacking is not subject to such constraints. China is a brutal, authoritarian society.
So, hacking by Westerners is not morally equivalent to hacking by Chinese or even Indians.
I submitted USA's own mass surveillance program 'Hemisphere' and that story NEVER got published. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
Does CIA/NSA has / . on its payroll?
LEARN THE LESSON MORON : Don't be stupid, don't fall for the bullshit advertisement, demand proof and accountability - or just take it up the ass like a Trump supporter on the way to the gallows.
Damn, those communists are too good at capitalism.
purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies
Fortunately, NSA would not do this (hint: to Airbus, for Boeing)
these amazingly talented government hackers who knows how to break into every system... I would say it's the U.S. doing it, because it does spy on everyone, and then "discovers" that another country was hacked (how do you do that exactly?) and then amazingly, there's always a little clue left behind. Aha! China must have done it!
But don't let me disturb your precious echo-chamber with my illogical thinking.
You are saying xBSD is too hard for NSA to hack and it must be badmouthed ?
Your owners are sacrosanct.
America is responsible for millions killed in Iraq and Syria. For NO good reason whatsoever. Except "pleasing Israel", of course.