RSSChina: We're Being Spied On Via Net
By Ed Oswald | Published September 12, 2007, 3:57 PM
Just a week after it was revealed that the Chinese may have been behind a cyberattack on the Pentagon in June of this year, the Chinese are now claiming "massive damage" from spying on its own computers.
Several "core, vital departments" have apparently been infiltrated. Chinese Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said that the government will counter with a tough response, including new censorship and Internet controls.
The timing of Lou's statements is somewhat dubious: the US government recently pointed blame for a June cyberattack on the Chinese Army, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has complained to Chinese premier Wen Jiabao over suspected hacks of its government systems.
Lou told the state-run Cadres Tribune magazine that "in recent years, party, government and military organs and national defense scientific research units have had many major cases of loss, theft and leakage of secrets, and the damage to national interests has been massive and shocking."
Claiming "spying" may just be a ruse to allow China to slip in new restrictions on Internet use by its citizens, experts say. Missing from Lou's statements were any specific cases of data loss, or evidence for that matter, either.
The country already has one of the most elaborate Net censorship systems in the world, and frequently jails citizens for various types of Internet "subversion." Lou blames US technology companies for leaving "holes" in their systems which allow the US government and others to spy on the country.
He further claimed that Chinese users were being "perverted" by objectionable content on the Internet, and urged the government to adopt stricter controls.
Would be quite a surprise if China didnt use "the net" to spy or conduct other "activities".
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China sucks. Any restriction on the internet and using terms like "subversion" for visiting sites the chinese govt determines not worthy of visiting is just grossly troubling.
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Payback's a B*TCH!!!
nuff said.
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what's next, Bush declares China has WMD's and invades? wait, he cant pull that lie off successfully again can he?
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I guess they don't call you eunichman for nothing.
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you dont think china has WMD's ?
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China is a Nuclear power you moron, everyone KNOWS they have them.
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I wonder if Qinjian knows what spyware/adware really is. :-P
Those probably account for most of the 'damage'.
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"China: We're Being Pwned Via Net.
Just a week after it was revealed that the Chinese may have been behind a counter strike on the Dust in June of this year, the Chinese are now claiming "massive damage" from shooting on its own teammates."
I cant but feel sorry for people who live under this kind of "regime".
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As one of the leading 'computer powers' in the world who seriously doesn't think the USA is using computers to spy?
(.....or any the rest of them come to that?)
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oops. :)
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Of course.
Just like we knew they were spying on us. The only difference is that we caught 'em at it.
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It's clearly "the western Caucasian-dominated world" picking on the poor Chinese. If they'd stop "acting like dogs" by launching cyber attacks and "act like men" and just talk to China and work things out everything would be fine, right Hocuspokus?
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I "see" black helicopters
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I see pink elephants.
I win. ;)
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I see dead people.
They won!
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I see Lead Paint.......
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lot of that going around lately...
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you from china or somthing ?
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I not spy you, you spy me!
Wow. The guy's gotta be at least 3 years old to think that's going to do any good.
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Thats the Chinese Government for you.
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Yeah - their being perverted by information on freedom, democracy and the true perversion of Communism.
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Dear God, it's got you too!
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wow, are you some idiot?
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