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Chinese accused of hacking into Aussie prime minister’s emails
AUSTRALIAN parliamentary computers are believed to have been hacked, including one belonging to the Oz prime minister, and as usual the Chinese are high on the list of suspects.
According to a report in the Australian Daily Telegraph, government sources reported a national security breach where at least 10 ministers were targeted and several thousand emails were accessed.
The CIA and FBI tipped off the Australian authorities about the raid, with Chinese intelligence agencies among the suspects. The hackers hit a network used primarily for correspondence by Australian MPs, rather than another network that is used for more sensitive communications.
It is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks that the Chinese have been accused of conducting. In addition to governments, companies like Google have suffered from attacks.
Incidents this year that the Chinese were suspected of carrying out included an attack on the Canadian government in February. The Chinese denied involvement though, while there was a belief that the attack could have simply been routed through the country.
And last month France admitted cyber attacks targeted at last year's G20 summit, but like the Canadian incident there was no conclusive evidence of Chinese government involvement.
But around a week ago Google wasn't too shy about directly accusing the Chinese state of causing problems with Gmail. µ
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This is about china vs australia, that has NOTHING to do with the US at all.
And you should learn about your own country, look up what part of the budget is for defense, look up that your government DID buy cruise-missiles, obviously not nuclear ones of course (they are becoming a hot item in the EU too, the thought of being able to kill people a thousand miles away for no reason while remaining untouchable just excites politicians more than anything imaginable).
And also look up some rhetoric the australian government engages in when mentioning china.
Personally I am not specifically anti-australian, and sure the US is worse as are many others, but facts are facts and the aussie government officials are know to be bonkers, ask your fellow australians and they will confirm (unless they have a screw loose and/or are religious nutters).
Just type "australia buys cruise missiles" on google if you need help with believing.
And look up details on wikipedia or the CIA factbook about the aussie military.
To me it's like israel spying in the US, when you have entities that can mess with you and who are taking an interest in you it pays to keep informed about what they say behind closed doors, it's just what the various intelligence agencies are for.
True enough about the US and warmongering, I suppose. Of course, the sanguine types at Commonwealth HQ have long mastered the deft art of avoiding 'war' by merely ceding territories, privileges, and peoples they (provably) don't control to the ruthless whims of dictators and other idealogues they (putatively) don't support. Remember how ol' paper-waving Harold sold-out Czechoslovakia to the Nazis? Not to be outdone, double-dealing Winnie later told Stalin to come get '90% interest' in Romania and Bulgaria whenever it was convenient...plus a half-interest (!) in Yugoslavia & Hungary, just for being such a friendly sort. And all this done in the sacred name of maintaining a motley assortment of colonial interests so as to continue the extraction of commodities -- not least of which being blood tribute, in time of war -- from their pitifully hapless subjects.
Good times for the tri-cross colours, eh? Enjoy your moral superiority, if not your woeful dentition!
W. Are your smoking crack? How many wars has Australia started? Compare that to say the US, or any of the US's crony allies?
While I assume most people reading your comment would assume that you've been described as "mad as a hatter", more than once, but for anyone else, every one of your points is grossly false.
"War like attitude", I suppose you get all your information from NRA commercials. The only point's of contention between Au and Cn, is the price of the minerals sold to Cn. They want it all for rock bottom!
FYI, The US spends more on the AWACS radar planes than the entire AUS defense budget...
And oh yes, those missiles you mentioned, I think you'll find that they are actually US missiles, on US soil(while they are technically with in the Australian border, we have no control, and would rather that they weren't there).
And since you are obviously scared of China, here is a pearl of wisdom, China will never invade the US, why would they bother, they already own it!!
On this one I say fair enough, since the aussies are mad as hatters and have a hysterical war-like attitude towards china, it is prudent of the chinese to keep an eye on that.
The aussies even bought cruise missiles specifically to target china and they have a sizable 'defense' budget that is bigger than israel I hear, while being a thousand miles away from everybody but the new-zealanders and having no real enemies.
They are still spooked by the japanese thing in WW2 I guess.
Theyre doing it primarily for the purposes of industrial and commercial espionage.
Which is fair enough - after all, the US has been doing it to them for decades.
so is China doing all this data gathering in preperation for war or just for fun?