RSSNew Zealand: China's Spying On Us, Too
By the Betanews Staff | Published September 13, 2007, 12:16 PM
China is once again being blamed for cyberattacks on a foreign country, with New Zealand secret service officials saying the Chinese were behind an attack on its systems. The country's prime minister Helen Clark said in a press conference Wednesday that no classified information had been compromised, however she did say foreign-government spies were behind the attack. Clark added that the government knew who was the source, but wouldn't elaborate.
However, like the US case, a government official identified the source of the hack through the media. In an interview with The Dominion Post, Security Intelligence Service director Warren Tucker hinted that the Communist country was behind it. If true, and China was behind the attack, New Zealand becomes the fourth known target of Chinese government hackers behind the US, UK, and Germany.
And America has been spying on everyone for the last 50 years. So what?
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|Everyone, let's get on the blame China boat. If you are a nation predominately white, hop in. Since we cannot beat the Chinese in both by forces or productions, we just harass them.
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|What in the hell are you blathering on about?
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|Sounds like a great way to get plugged off the Internet.
Obviously the Great Chinese Internet Wall isn't working for their citizens... so piss off the rest of the world until they get pulled.
Smart thinking China!
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|Nuke them till they glow and shoot um in the dark!!
But really, a cyber attack on one nation from another nation is still a attack.
The Chinese had better tread carefully in this aria because this is just the kind of thing that could really lead to WW III.
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|You realize how much less greenhouse gases would be produced daily if we did that?
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|Do you realize how long of a winter we would have if we did that?
Dunno 'bout you, but I'm not a huge fan of winter, and the mutants would just make it worse... ;p
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|Duh, they are commies! They try and spy on EVERYONE!
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|Ahh everyone spies on everyone these days :) They were just silly enough to get caught
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|That's the absolute truth. There's probably not any major nation that isn't spying on some other nation. Some are just a bit more sophisticated in the technology department and as such, aren't caught quite as often.
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|If you think it's just the "Commies," ask your grandma to tell you the story of Gary Francis Powers and his recreational U2 flight over the Soviet Union.
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|I know why they're spying on NZ. They just want the secret of how the land is so green and beautiful.
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|It's largely untouched by humans, nobody wants to go there.
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|and we want to keep it that way
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|that explains a lot.
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|Yes it does...
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|The grass is always greener on the other side, and it is! ;-)
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|New Zealand has a secret service? What, to protect the sheep? ;)
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|Someone needs to make sure they aren't getting moleste...
Oh, never mind.
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|http://www.nzsis.govt.nz/
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|Hey!
China's spying on *me* too!!
/sorry, was feeling left out...
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