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China has the Great Firewall segregating most international access from the country's network. Additionally, China (moreso than most) has a motivation to onshor
by talldayo 2y ago
China has the Great Firewall segregating most international access from the country's network. Additionally, China (moreso than most) has a motivation to onshore as much of their software and hardware manufacturing to bolster their own industry.
It's possible that isolated attacks could pop off now and again, but hacking to-and-from China is strictly state controlled.
- nitwit005 2y agoTheir censorship infrastructure isn't security. If anything, it's another thing to hack.
- WatchDog 2y agoIt does have some defensive benefit. Getting legitimate connectivity to work reliably across the Chinese border, is a big pain. Due to this, Chinese commercial internet infrastructure has very few dependencies on international services. Western infrastructure by comparison is very vulnerable to distribution of connectivity, attacks on deep sea cables can cause a lot of damage.
- petergs 2y agoIt certainly does happen. See for example under “Targets”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
- tharkun__ 2y agoNow if that naming isn't intentional then I don't know what would be ... The Tao or Dao is the natural way of the universe, primarily as conceived in East Asian philosophy and religion. This seeing of life cannot be grasped as a concept. Rather, it is seen through actual living experience of one's everyday being. The concept is represented by the Chinese character 道, which has meanings including 'way', 'path', 'road', and sometimes 'doctrine' or 'principle'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
- eru 2y agoYou say it like it's hard to get around the Great Firewall in either direction.