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The targeting of Chinese human rights activists' email accounts don't seem Suspicious to you? Exactly what /private/ group would have motive for this?
by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
The targeting of Chinese human rights activists' email accounts don't seem Suspicious to you? Exactly what /private/ group would have motive for this?
- nfnaaron 17y agoIt seems very likely it's the Chinese govt. But I don't doubt that other governments have an interest in what activists all over the world do, including our own.
- JCThoughtscream 17y agoA fair point. Heard recently that the "Iranian Cyber Army" attacked Baidu as well. Nothing major - they weren't able to do much more than hassle Twitter, and they didn't do much to Baidu either.
- lallysingh 17y agoSomeone wanting to blackmail the activists.
- pyre 17y agoThere are supposedly a lot of hyper-nationalistic youths (specifically in the teens-20s age range) in China right now. I could see a group of them being hackers and feeling that they are doing this for the 'honour of their country' or something similar.
- adrianwaj 17y agoIt'd be more like 1 hyper nationalist cherry picking the best hackers through tests and exam results and then telling them (ie forcing them) to weed out dissenters and whatever else they can get.
- est 17y agoChinese nationalistic is a coin with two sides. It's could be turned against Party and govn't easily. Just think of what happened in 1989.
- ordinaryman 17y agoExactly what /private/ group would have motive for this? Possibly a human rights activists' group, which knows the implications of such a hack ? Notice that only the subject line of the emails were accessed, not the contents. I am not saying that it is the case, but your question brings forth this possibility.