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"Us" vs "Them" is a cognitive bias. A title that attempts to exacerbate that bias isn't very nice.
by fouc 8y ago
"Us" vs "Them" is a cognitive bias. A title that attempts to exacerbate that bias isn't very nice.
- deogeo 8y agoIt's also a survival strategy - the counterpoint to 'divide and conquer'. What happens to a group that doesn't unite or fight back because "Well we're not free of sin either"?
- uberman 8y agoAre you suggesting that "we" are using the "great cannon" to target "ourselves" then?
- kylec 8y agoIf that’s how the people engaging in these attack see it, I would say the title is appropriate
- Supermancho 8y agoTake any given server. Log the IPs of invalid SSH attempts to access the machine over 3 months. Plot the IPs on a geolocation. Chinese originating IPs are the overwhelming number. I posted my actual data years ago as a response to some comment, but I could just grab my recent logs and nothing has changed much (frequency, outliers, and some volume trading). While the phrasing may be obtuse, it's a sentiment reflecting reality.
- auiya 8y agoIt would stand to reason. China has the largest number of endpoints, and thus is most likely to have the largest number of compromised hosts. I take it you've ruled out the possibility this is a geographically diverse spread of actors taking advantage of poor security practices on the large swaths of Chinese infrastructure in your logs?
- monocasa 8y agoChina has large numbers of pirated unpatched systems meaning that botnets have large presences in China, regardless of who's running their command and control.