Call In The Cyber Cops
"Political security and commercial espionage will always happen. The U.S. will keep spying on Chinese companies and leaders, so why can't China do the same?"What the American agenda is on their outrage over having suddenly re-discovered Chinese Internet espionage is unknown, but it does seem absurdly clumsy and hypocritical. The announcement by the White House and the statements by President Obama about cyber-infiltration and stealth-theft attempts of industrial secrets may appear on the surface serious, but those doing the work of cybertheft attempts appear to be fairly light on execution.
Shen Dingli, director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
"The Chinese government and Chinese military as well as relevant personnel have never engaged and never participated in so-called cyber theft of trade secrets."
"What the United States should do now is withdraw its indictment."
Hong Lei, Foreign Ministry spokesman, Beijing
"The United States, by this action, betrays its commitment to building healthy, stable, reliable military-to-military relations and causes serious damage to mutual trust."
Ministry of Defence, Beijing
The five 'officers' who purportedly stole trade secrets from major American companies and whom the United States feels China should hand over for American prosecution, really don't appear to be part of the Chinese military. They are, it would seem, talentless hackers, working at a fairly fundamental level of geek expertise, young men engaged by the military likely, and paid a pittance for their work.
China insists it is a victim itself of computer hacking. And while it's a very ill-kept secret that China has always employed whatever means it hopes will work to enable it to gain trade secrets from foreign entities to aid the country's industrial sector, it's also no secret that all countries engage in espionage of one kind or another. China just seems more clumsy at it, and risks getting caught now and again, and when it is, those who level accusations against it enjoy their sanctimony.
A huffy Beijing has stated that China's engagement with the United States in cyber-security co-operation will no longer carry forward and damn the issues, anyway. But a planned U.S.-hosted naval exercise scheduled to take place next month, will proceed full speed ahead in all likelihood. After all, Chinese networks and websites have been targeted by thousands of hackers from computers in the United States.
"The U.S. is the biggest attacker of China's cyberspace. The U.S. attacks, infiltrates and taps Chinese networks belonging to governments, institutions, enterprises, universities and major communication backbone networks", stated Xinhua, citing the Cabinet Internet information agency. No kidding. So, what's the game in the White House? To convince the voting public in the U.S. that their government knows the name of the game?
Here's an illustration of just how expert the Chinese cyber-espionage hackers are: "To all the masters. Do you have any server-end experiments that I can study for a couple of days? I do not ask for all the codes, I know you must have your own secrets. I just want to know what kind of functions I need to use", posted 30-year-old Wen Xinyu, one of the accused.
On one hacking forum where a post on how to steal login passwords for computers running on Windows was found by Wen, he wrote: "Awesome! I happen to need this. Thank you!" This is the guy, one of the five accused, who earlier in the year appealed on line for help writing programs to "monitor, connect, transmit data, save files and disconnect" in WinInet, Microsoft Windows Internet application programming interface.
Case made.
Labels: China, Controversy, Cyber-espionage, Hypocrisy, United States
posted by Pieface @ Friday, May 23, 2014
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