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China says West's blame for hacks is 'irresponsible'
SUSPECTED BY DEFAULT, China has denied that it took part in the widely publicised hacking that was uncovered by insecurity firm McAfee earlier this week.
McAfee's claim that some 72 organisations including the US, Candian and Indian governments were hacked in a prolonged attack led many to simply assume that China was behind the attacks. For its part, McAfee did not publicly point the finger at anyone but said that there was a single "state actor" involved, which for some automatically meant China.
Now China's state-owned newspaper the People's Daily dismissed the allegations that China was to blame as "irresponsible", though it did not cite any official comment from the ruling Communist party. The paper said, "The McAfee report claims that a 'state actor' engaged in hacking for a large-scale internet espionage operation, but its analysis clearly does not stand up to scrutiny."
Although the People's Daily is regarded as the voice of the Communist party, it does have a valid point. As we mentioned in our original report about Operation Shady RAT, China might well be a suspect but unless the security experts have access to the raw log files, it is premature to eliminate all other states that have the resources to engage in such hacking activities.
McAfee should be commended for remaining neutral, though questions should be raised as to why it took security firms so long to find out that some of the world's most sensitive networks had been compromised for so long. µ
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Sure, it can theoretically be any number of countries. Sure Wilbur.
However, you bet based on probabilities if you are to make any money at the casino.
And guess who has the most to gain, the most to spend and the most ease todo when it comes to hacking?
Yeah, sure, its irresponsible to blame any specific country but guess what: if you shake down ten punks, eight have drugs on them: that's called statistical probability and its a f@#$%^g science so give me a f@#$%^%g break will ya?
You know when you have a bunch of kids together and you aren't sure who did it, but you tell the story and suddenly one of the kids blurts out "it wasn't me!"? You know instantly who's guilty.
Thanks China for being the first (when no person was yet being accused) of saying "hey it wasn't me!". Just proved your guilt.
"Benefit of the doubt"? I think 'case history' speaks louder than their hollow denials.
Me thinks they protest too much. Go ahead, lie to me. Your denials assault my senses as a little child caught with his/her hands in the cookie jar.
I guess it's all game over when they hack CIA/NSA/KGB etc. Then they will know exactly how much disinformation they have ingested.
..."benefit of the doubt" people!
It could be S.Korea, Russia, Wikeleaks Norwegian countries...damn...who knows which country.
Americans are such dumbasses and with cold war mentality when it comes to attacking/accusing another country!
"...though questions should be raised as to why it took security firms so long to find out that some of the world's most sensitive networks had been compromised for so long."
"Publicising" and "knowing" are not mutually dependent. For example, someone at the now-defunct NOTW *knows* that Rupert Murdoch authorized illegal activites, but so far that person has not said so *in public*.
"...though questions should be raised as to why it took security firms so long to find out that some of the world's most sensitive networks had been compromised for so long"
I think the biggest question concerns the first responsibility of government: defence of the realm. In a tertiary economy that societies assets are tied up with intellectual property. With the interception tools and massive computing power at their disposable
there really is no excuse.
If a rocket from a state actor was fired deliberately and hit a citizens house in another country, that is an act of war.GSHQs statement that companies need to be wary and rigorous in their security is like telling the householder to get really tough harling; it's not enough and it's beyond their responsibility.
China must be innocent!
And the Chinese didn't hack Google either, and don't censor their entire country's Internet, or invade the peaceful country of Tibet.
/sarcasm