China yesterday reacted angrily to an independent report by US corporation Northrop Grumman, accusing China of amassing cyber warfare capabilities against the US as “fabrications” and out of ”a Cold War mindset.”“This so-called commission has all along exaggerated the China threat,” China’s foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement, which was posted on his ministry’s website yesterday.
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This is not the first time that China has reacted in such a fashion on reports from the Western media and foreign governments accusing it for conducting cyber warfare.
In the past, Canada, Germany, the UK, the US, France, Spain, the diasporas from Tibet and even its close commercial ally, Australia, have accused China of conducting cyber attacks and hacking, which China has time and again denied despite massive evidence from all these countries of these attacks originating from mainland China.
China slams US cyber attack report news. India: ”China is fishing in troubled waters.”
Published: October 24, 2009
Speaking of “Cold War” mentality these repeated denials, often using the same words, is turning into this era’s “Big Lie”. The Chinese Premier told the German Chancellor two years ago that they would do something about Chinese hacking activity yet they did not.
Marcus Ranum argues somewhat naively that because China will execute anyone caught hacking into their own systems that the teenagers in China have nothing to do but hack into NASA, the White House, and other governments. All good fun.