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>"I'm seeing "the chinese" & "hacking" used too much together without proof more often than not." Get used to it, you're going to be seeing it for what is like

>"I'm seeing "the chinese" & "hacking" used too much together without proof more often than not." Get used to it, you're going to be seeing it for what is likely a few decades at least. We need an enemy. The Chinese are the new Red Army; something to blame Western problems on.

philwelch 14y ago
It's a remix of anti-Communism and the type of anxiety we used to feel about Japan's economic power.
nwzpaperman 14y ago
Sovereign nations do employ significant signal intelligence resources to defend their government. The Chinese are heavily invested and have been responsible for the majority of attacks on US IT infrastructure for years. It wasn't discussed openly before because the trade relations weren't degraded/ing like they are today. In case you've missed the memo, they're threatening all of their neighbors outright with kinetic military force. Japan is no trivial country to threaten force against, so the diplomatic climate has changed and more information is being shared publicly in anticipation of an outright military conflict. There are conflicting interests between individuals that lead to physical fights and the same applies to sovereign nations whose interests run contrary.
- blablabla123 14y ago
  >It wasn't discussed openly before It was, at least in some political magazines. http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7551/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7551/1.html (German article from 2001) References: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/43443 http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/43443 And besides Internet, just for the record https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/06/990602-275397.htm https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/06/990602-275397.htm
darkarmani 14y ago
> something to blame Western problems on. That sounds really ignorant. DDoS is not a situation of east versus west.
- druiid 14y ago
  Well, it kind of is a lot of the time, just not in the way the other commenter was thinking. The majority of DDoS traffic I have seen is from Russian, Turkish, Ukraine and Chinese IP address spaces. Basically I think a lot of 'eastern' countries have a lot of people on the internet but not a lot of security. I imagine high rates of pirated windows (and thus lesser counts of security updates) contributes in some of the places.

philwelch 14y ago

It's a remix of anti-Communism and the type of anxiety we used to feel about Japan's economic power.

nwzpaperman 14y ago

Sovereign nations do employ significant signal intelligence resources to defend their government. The Chinese are heavily invested and have been responsible for the majority of attacks on US IT infrastructure for years. It wasn't discussed openly before because the trade relations weren't degraded/ing like they are today. In case you've missed the memo, they're threatening all of their neighbors outright with kinetic military force. Japan is no trivial country to threaten force against, so the diplomatic climate has changed and more information is being shared publicly in anticipation of an outright military conflict. There are conflicting interests between individuals that lead to physical fights and the same applies to sovereign nations whose interests run contrary.

blablabla123 14y ago
>It wasn't discussed openly before It was, at least in some political magazines. http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7551/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7551/1.html (German article from 2001) References: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/43443 http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/43443 And besides Internet, just for the record https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/06/990602-275397.htm https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/06/990602-275397.htm

darkarmani 14y ago

> something to blame Western problems on. That sounds really ignorant. DDoS is not a situation of east versus west.

druiid 14y ago
Well, it kind of is a lot of the time, just not in the way the other commenter was thinking. The majority of DDoS traffic I have seen is from Russian, Turkish, Ukraine and Chinese IP address spaces. Basically I think a lot of 'eastern' countries have a lot of people on the internet but not a lot of security. I imagine high rates of pirated windows (and thus lesser counts of security updates) contributes in some of the places.