*I kinda hate to go on and on about this, but really, they're just going on and on and ON.
*I wonder why these Chinese spooks are so eager to hack journalists when everybody
else is perfectly contented to just starve journalists out of existence.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE62U04X20100331
Hacking attacks similar to Gmail attacks reported in Jan ((("Similar to?" It's gotta be the same guys.)))
By Lucy Hornby and Alexei Oreskovic
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (Reuters) - Yahoo email accounts of some journalists and activists whose work relates to China were compromised in an attack discovered this week, days after Google announced it would move its Chinese-language search services out of China due to censorship concerns.
(((People need to wake up a little here. It's not about the "censorship concerns." The censorship concerns were how Google counterattacks on the spooks attacking them.)))
https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/
Several journalists in China and Taiwan found they were unable to access their accounts beginning March 25, among them Kathleen McLaughlin, a freelance journalist in Beijing. Her access was restored on Wednesday, she told Reuters. (((I hope she feels flattered. I'm a freelance journalist myself, and I'm sure I'd thrive under some focussed cyber-attention from Chinese intelligence. Haul out the "human meat search engines.")))
The compromised accounts include those of the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group that China accuses of inciting separatism by ethnic Uighurs in the frontier region of Xinjiang. (((There were massive riots in Xinjiang where innocent Chinese civilians were chopped up in the streets by cellphone-crazed Uighur lynch mobs, but never mind those gruesome details. Hey, it's not like Chinese spooks ever have any legitimate national security concerns.)))
"I suspect a lot of information in my Yahoo account was downloaded," the group's spokesman, Dilxat Raxit, told Reuters on Wednesday. He said the email account, which was set up in Sweden, has been inaccessible for a month.
"A lot of people I used to contact in Lanzhou, Xi'an and elsewhere have not been reachable by phone for the past few weeks," he said, adding he had used the Yahoo email account to contact them in the past.
Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times in Beijing said on Wednesday his Yahoo Plus account had been set, without his knowledge, to forward to another, unknown, account....
(((More: the Vietnamese getting into the act. "Operations Other Than Cyberwar." Why are they upset about domestic dissent problems with aluminum? Can't they just arrest these people as opposed to this Rube Goldberg scheme for poisoning fonts? One gets the impression of headless online committees making up spyware techniques as they go along. Where's the business plan? Is there one, even? It seems so counterproductive. Surely the BBC talking about bauxite mine hacking is much worse than any feeble local dissent that this scheme was intended to quell. And why do the Chinese benefit by clumsily hacking Google? Couldn't they simply refuse to do business with Google on any number of pretexts? The Chinese could BUY Google, for heaven's sake.)))
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8596846.stm
(((Sino-Globalism R Us, or, Chinese hacking as the New Internet Order:)))
http://www.newsweek.com/id/234928/page/1
(...)
"Equally quietly, Beijing is helping re-design the Web. Recent headlines have focused on China's spat with Google, which announced it would refuse to abide by local censorship rules anymore after the company's networks were hacked from Chinese computers. But separately, the Chinese have been working hard on the next generation of Internet standards—what's called IPv6, for Internet Protocol version 6. The current version, IPv4, is expected to run out of usable IP addresses as soon as next year. That day can't come soon enough for Beijing, since the vast majority of addresses—some 1.4 billion as of August 2007—have gone to American businesses and individuals, versus a measly 125 million to China. That's fewer than one IP address per 100 people, compared with five per person in the United States.
"IPv6 will provide trillions of new addresses for everything from Web sites to intelligent home appliances and military applications—and Beijing intends to get its share of them. China may also get a new opportunity for cyber-spying: unlike the previous architecture, IPv6 allows addresses to be attached to specific computers or mobile devices, which would give the regime greater ability to police its Netizens. ((("Ubiquity with Chinese national characteristics.")))
"All these efforts are motivated by an odd mix of confidence, pride, and insecurity. (((What's "odd" about that? Sounds just like the Homeland Security Dept.))) On the one hand, China knows its technological capabilities are dramatically improving and sees a chance to move beyond the West in certain fields.
"There's always been this feeling in China and a number of other developing nations that the West was the place to be—and now suddenly it's not," says Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. (((Interesting to live in a world where even Red China paranoia has been outsourced to guys with names like "Ruchir Sharma.")))
"Chinese scientists and researchers are flocking home to conduct original research at well-funded labs...." (((I've gotta say I'm pro "original research at well-funded labs" even if they're set on the Moon. Consider those other guys doing non-original practice with belt-bombs.)))
