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Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire
- tmaly 3y agoDoes anyone have a Show HN link for this? Is there a pricing page?
- topspin 3y agoThe story claims $100K to hack an X account and a $200K-something package to hack a bunch of other social media.
- jdawg777 3y agohttps://archive.is/yubtQ https://archive.is/yubtQ
- martinky24 3y agoHack-a-Nation-State-as-a-Service
- Terr_ 3y agoIt pairs nicely with the inverse that also exists: Hack-a-Service-as-a-Nation-State.
- bottom999mottob 3y agoAll one and the same: Nation-State-in-Service's-Clothing Ok gang let's see who this nation-state really is Pulls off the mask Jinkies! It's not just a service; it's a nation-state in disguise Recursion intensifies
- imiric 3y agoNothing surprising here. All sides are waging an information war, which has been going on for decades. It's much cheaper and cleaner than physical warfare. And if done correctly, the source of attacks can be difficult to trace.
- chankstein38 3y agoGrowing up, I always wondered why war happened in real life versus in video games. You can duke it out without actually costing lives. I guess this kind of thing tends to do both.
- yeeeloit 3y ago> in video games What a world to live in that would be.
- inoffensivename 3y agoSounds like "A Taste of Armageddon"[1], a Star Trek episode where neighboring warring planets decide to wage simulated war in order to spare expensive real infrastructure. Except in this imagination, the people declared "dead" were required to report to disintegration chambers within 24 hours. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
- gopher_space 3y agoI remember a story about space combat where just transmitting a firing solution would disable the enemy ship. Can't remember the title or author for the life of me.
- inopinatus 3y agothis is the role of sport
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoPretty hard for you to win when my soldiers have infinity health and ammo, but be sure you don’t yell ‘fight me irl’ in anger!
- leobg 3y agoIsn’t that the point? It’s not coating lives, so the enemy is still there. And may not like that he has lost the game.
- jumploops 3y agoHere’s an archive of the GitHub repo: https://web.archive.org/web/20240219192850/https://github.com/I-S00N/I-S00N https://web.archive.org/web/20240219192850/https://github.co...
- jumploops 3y agoAnd here’s a translated version: https://bitbucket.org/workspacespain/i-s00n-translated/src/main/ https://bitbucket.org/workspacespain/i-s00n-translated/src/m...
- djfobbz 3y agoWhat’s to say this isn’t our own state sponsored propaganda? Source: “ The CIA and the New York Times: An unanswered question” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277939083900833 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027793...
- jerf 3y agoThere's an entire worldwide underground black market economy of these sorts of things. "Dark web" isn't just a meme. If there's any propaganda it's that it's just China. It's all over the place.
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- arp242 3y ago"An unanswered question" from 1951... Applying that to any current situation is foolish at best.
- cmmeur01 3y agoCan you explain why? Do you think the CIA has stopped doing these things?
- mdhb 3y agoHN truly brings out some of the dumbest shit in people the moment the topic moves even slightly away from technology.
- hodgesrm 3y agoGiven the long, well-documented history of US government shenanigans [0, 1, 2], I would hope for a more thoughtful response to GP's comment. You would have to be somewhat naive to dismiss such claims. Or perhaps I misunderstood your comment ? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_... [2] https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...
- hn1986 3y agothe list of APT by china is growing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China
- 3abiton 3y agoThis will be worse will llms
- gessha 3y agoNon-paywalled and not NYTimes https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/new-leak-shows-business-side-of-chinas-apt-menace/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/new-leak-shows-business-...
- MaximilianEmel 3y agoAlso discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426379
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