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China Responds To US Declaration Of Cyber War
Authored Op-Ed via Government mouthpiece Xinhua,
The United States is on the brink of making another grave mistake under the name of protecting cyber security, as it is reportedly considering retaliatory measures against China for unfounded hacking accusations.
Senior U.S. government and intelligence officials were quoted by a U.S. newspaper as saying Friday that President Barack Obama's administration has determined to retaliate against China for its alleged theft of personnel information of more than 20 million Americans from the database of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), but the forms and specific measures of the retaliation have not been decided.
The report added that Obama has allegedly ordered his staff to come up with "a more creative set of responses," while a U.S. official hinted that the United States will employ "a full range of tools to tailor a response."
The decision came amid a growing chorus in the United States demonizing China as the culprit behind the massive breach of the OPM computer networks. As witnessed by most past similar cases, the U.S. government, Congress and media once again called for punishing China for this after a top U.S. intelligence official indirectly pointed a finger at China.
Obviously, cyber security has become another tool for Washington to exert pressure on China and another barrier that restrains the further development of China-U.S. relations.
Washington will be blamed for any adverse effects this might have on its ties with China, as all the U.S. accusations against China were made without providing concrete evidence.
The U.S. government was also self-contradictory for declining to directly name China as the attacker on the one hand, while deciding to target China for retaliation on the other.
By repeatedly blaming China for hacking into its government computers, Washington apparently tries to portray Beijing as the No. 1 bad guy in cyber space, but this is doomed to fail because the United States is the most powerful country with the most advanced cyber technologies.
As exposed by former U.S. defense contractor Edward Snowden, the U.S. government has been notoriously and blatantly engaged in worldwide surveillance operations against numerous other countries. To divert criticism against its relentless espionage activities, it portrays itself as a victim of cyber attacks.
By heating up the issue of the OPM hacking, Washington perhaps also aims to pressure China to restore the bilateral cyber work group which was suspended last year after Washington sued five Chinese military officers on so-called charges of commercial espionage despite strong protests from China.
China has repeatedly stated that it is against all forms of cyber attacks and will crack down on them, as it has long been a major victim of such illegal activities, many of which originated from the United States.
China has also called for conducting cooperation with the U.S. side and any other country to protect cyber security and its peaceful order.
Just like protecting its territorial sovereignty and integrity, China is strongly determined to protect the safety of its cyber space and reserves all rights to counter any outside threats and intrusions. It will meet any form of political or economic retaliation with corresponding countermeasures.
The United States, which made a mistake last year with its false charges against the Chinese officers, should not repeat the mistake by taking retaliatory measures against China over the OPM incident.
If it stubbornly implements retaliatory measures against China in cyber space, it will be known for being a cyber bully and will have to shoulder responsibility for escalating confrontation and disrupting the peaceful order in the cyber space.
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The current US government (as opposed to the US people or country) is the worlds most aggressive and criminal terrorist organization.
I expect that Chinese people and the Chinese government understand this.
They will act accordingly.
Since many US Government departments just finished a $500 million upgrade to Win98 and XP (Seriously) that should make us all feel more secure.
This is like responding against your neighbor because you left your keys in your front door while you were on vacation. OPM was incompetent, whoever hacked them (China or no) has absolutely no reason to be proud of how difficult the job was.
Obama is saber-rattling to cover up his own incompetence, nothing new.
Get Trump in there...
Gabriel: Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that? Misdirection.
Stanley: What the fuck are you talking about?
Gabriel: Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes
Swordfish Movie
China as a cyberthreat? What about our own government sponsored domestic threats?
It's all misdirection.
Gweilo, those Chinese cyber attackers far outclass the cyber warriors the USA has, the guys who do stuff like code Obamacare. Awaken the sleeping dragon at your peril.
So nice of the NSA to build backdoors into everything, for any hacker to use.
Stupid fucks are about to be hoist on their own petard.I hope thru their anuses.
Lockheed Martin, Livermore and the other government funded entities cannot hire good programmers. Good programmers understand that the US government is the largest terrorist organization in the world. The programmers know that ultimately working for a terrorist organization will come back to bite them.
So, they go for the cash and a greater level of security by working for the banks and some parts of industry.
the network is under attack
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dont sell Cisco or Microsoft to China
lol, We fuk "y" mor.
U no mess wit randshorting gold crastles. Bitchez
Oblabla may be a tough guy but I'd wager on the country with the greatest number of hackers.
This was entirely predictable the moment they reversed course on the blame game. Before Snowden Chinese state hackers were newsworthy. Hacking team were Italian state hackers exporting exploits to most of the west, including the US as well as African warlords and oppressive nations in the Middle East. I don't see the foreign policy win from wading in to this lake of feces where everyone's hands are dirty, not least of which are our own government's. They lost their legitimacy here, stirring up a shit storm won't help.
All joking aside, the Chinese are a major fucking problem.
Donald Trump might be the best guy to deal with the pussies we have in CONgress.
Marco Rubio , Gaping vagina. completely unqualified, as is Paul Ryan and Criss "tub~o~lard" Cristy.
chicoms are only a problem because stupid politicians approved greedy companies selling western tech to them.
think back to pre-captialist expanded china circa 1970.
only countries within walking distance had anything to fear
the genie is out of the bag. china is a player now.
thanks wall street. all this will go down in history along with Standard Oil building synthetic oil plants in 1930's germany.
Ill bite, why not Rand? Perry only if a pull up contest breaks out.
I've flown into NewWark(sp) airport. It's a shithole.
from jackson with the indians to bathhouse all over , this country has fucked up everything it gets near.
It is in the genes; really.
'unfounded'
we don't need no stinkin founded...we da U S A
We proved with the Ukranian Malasian crash...we simply do not need proof or facts...they only slow down the rush to whatever the fuck it is we want to do....
Karma doesnt happen to you, you have to sit and watch dissapointments fron row center and its indirect all around you. At least that seems to happen to me since my 20s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vb32pGcNsA
oh yeah, hey china suck balls i know your astrology better than your own guys, hiyahhhhhh fucker.
Plus we made star wars, you make crap
They create better islands than we do.
The only activity that China has seemingly played part in have been intelligence and intellectual property theft. It is really unknown if that is government sanctioned or independent.
Also, a cyber "attack" is not like an attack in a typical sense. All cyber attacks can be classified into 3 categories:
Sabotage
Theft
Vandalism
The Chinese have stolen data. So does the NSA. Wake me up when they shoot up an airliner.
In other news, the Chinese government's accusation that the actions of the USSA are those of a "cyber bully" was responded to today -- by an as yet to be named spook from State -- with a resounding "neener-neener".
Srsly?
I think this is a great chance to point out why the terrorist dont actually have to do anything because the USA is doing a damn fine job at fucking themself................anyone remember IBM getting busted for spying and how the just changed names...........maybe the USA can try that too, they can just take down the flags and start calling the place Southern Canada...............Im sure the rest of the damn world wont know the difference
I'm guessing that as much as China spends to hack the U.S., the U.S. is spending just as much to hack China. In the meantime, the FBI is bitching about encrypted Apple messages helping terrorists.
Yeah, bizarro world.
OK great - So when we start seeing all kinds of shit shutting down and not rebooting all over this country we'll know what happened. Obama and his damn pink lines!
China's first shot across the bow is sarcastic trolling.
They're good.
Haven't they learned the first rule of cyberwarfare...
You dont TALK about Cyberwarefare!
"Do or Do not, There is no Try."
Yoda
Hey Chinkman listen, the thing you highly intellegent China, China, China people don't seem to realize is we stupid people can view the attacks in real time. Can you? You really want to pick a fight in this space? Keep it up and prepare for a bigger market crash than you have seen so far. Then your electricity grid goes down and the nuke plants get a mind of their own. So Fuck off and stay in your own country.
Finally some truth.
This article is legit.
Cyber bully huh?
How many here have heard of Fort Huachuca?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/02/us-army-declare-war-on-free-media/
You have now been informed ..
Soetoro and his masters want to kill the free flow of information via internet.
China has to be the bad guy. Thats it.
Good post Tyler. Thanks for keeping this issue front and center.
My biggest concern about this incident, aside from the fact that if true, it represents a major security breach, is that it will be used (true or otherwise) by cabalist regulators that have a media control agenda, to restrict the internet in some way for “national security reasons” when in fact they really want to restrict it for “media content control” (i.e. censorship).
I can just see the cabal claiming that they need to clamp down on alternative media “not because we fear the truth, but because of national security reasons”.
This would mean that they could finally get the same choke hold on alternative media that they have on the MSM all in the name of “protecting the people” (from the truth?). How convenient.