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50 cent army much?
by davepage 15y ago
50 cent army much?
- misterbwong 15y agoLooks like it. 1 comment (the grandparent), account created 69 days ago, shilling for the Chinese government. For those who don't get the reference, here's an article that explains it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/22/chinathemedia.marketingandpr http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/22/chinathemedia.ma...
- Volpe 15y agoI see, so rather than actually discuss the points I make, just attack me as some chinese govt astro-turfer... wtf!? Just because I haven't commented before doesn't make my comment less valid... does it?
- slug 15y agoUnfortunately, after seeing the firewall logs of several Internet facing machines in distinct hosting providers in different parts of the world, it's quite interesting to notice that 90% if not more of the port scans, http vulnerability scans, among others, come from network blocks from that part of the planet. Even more illuminating that if their great firewall is so advanced, being able to block anything on a need basis, is not concerned on blocking these.
- Volpe 15y agoMy understanding was the great firewall isn't so advanced. It is essentially a filter system, run in quite a manual fashion (i.e eyeballs on screens assessing if things should be blocked). I'm not refuting attacks originating from china, there is piles of evidence that support this. Things to keep in mind - there are more internet users in china, than anywhere else, so there is going to be more of 'everything' from china. One needs to convert the stats into per-capita ratios before making meaningful conclusions about % of attacks etc. My main issue (in my original post) is the jump from "Attack from Chinese IP addresses on gmail accounts" to "China attacked us [The US]" - without any qualification. It promotes a nationalistic 'Us against Them' mentality that is primarily based on hysteria rather than fact.
- felipe 15y agoVery well said. In fact, blind nationalism is the very same strategy the 50-cent party uses (referring to the parent comment).
- hugh3 15y agoI haven't heard the term "50 cent army" before. I assume it's not a rapper's fan club?