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As a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfa
by sgustard 7y ago
As a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThe supporting link for that figure describes China's hackers army as a myth (in the header), and as a loose coalition of civilians in the body: >"That revelation, along with a separate story in the Financial Times that a freelancer wrote the Aurora code, is focusing attention on China’s loose web of cowboy hackers. And SharpWinner — the leader of a coalition including anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 civilian members …" // The rest of the Wikipedia page, amongst other things, describes a structured make up (military, PLA, civilian). Assuming the numbers were true, how does that compare to USA's, or other countries?