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If you want to give credit to a report detailing how much money your political leaders have piled up for themselves, hacking the media outfit that published it
by brown9-2 14y ago
If you want to give credit to a report detailing how much money your political leaders have piled up for themselves, hacking the media outfit that published it is a great way to confirm the story.
- OGinparadise 14y agoIf you want to give credit to a report detailing how much money your political leaders have piled up for themselves, hacking the media outfit that published it is a great way to confirm the story. Do you think it matters now for the Chinese gov? By doing this and more they will make it very expensive for NYT and impossible for smaller outfits to mess with them. Maybe they'll uncover some dirt and release it to embarrass or discredit its reporters, who knows. Google thought they'd forced them to back down and we know what happened.
- brown9-2 14y agoI don't think the New York Times would need much motivation to investigate corruption in China in the first place, but I strongly doubt being hacked by a foreign government would make them less motivated to do so.
- Jack000 14y agothat's the thing I don't understand. If accurately reported, this hacking attempt seems to be a sophisticated, expensive military operation with virtually no upside and high risk of discovery. It just doesn't seem rational to expend that kind of resource for such petty motives, especially if they have any idea how western media works, which I believe they do.