Annoying and laughable 'hacker case'

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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90883/8142350.html

By Meng Yan and Zhou Yong
People's Daily Online
February 25, 2013

Recently, Mandiant, a U.S. network security company released a report saying 
"China's military is involved in the hacker attacks". The Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs and the Department of Defense have responded to the relevant slanders. 
The U.S. companies and media successively created "hacker cases" with "no 
factual basis". Their behavior is annoying and laughable.

It's laughable first because they are unprofessional. The conclusion "the 
attack source comes from China" is drawn merely based on the communication 
correlations of IP address. Is not that conclusion too naive? Second, U.S. 
media does not get tired of playing the same old tune. It is not difficult to 
find a sense of "deja vu" in their approach of hyping Chinese military network 
hackers. Two years ago, the United States referred to Shandong Lanxiang 
Vocational School as a "Chinese hacker camp" with military background, and 
listed an enterprise in Hebei Hengshui and a university in Henan Zhengzhou as 
"network militias", which all resulted a mere joke. Now they play the exact 
same game again and, out of nowhere, claim that a troop stationed in Shanghai 
is the headquarters of hackers of the People's Liberation Army. Regarding 
network attacks, China suffered a lot of harm. The United States does have no 
control over the attacks from its side. However, it constantly accuses China of 
attacking. It is not fair game.

Fourth, their behavior is laughable because of their irresponsibility. China-US 
relations are one of the most important bilateral relations in the world today. 
Strategic mutual trust between the two powers is very important to the 
maintenance of world peace and development. Chinese law forbids hacker attacks 
that undermine Internet security. Chinese government applies stringent 
regulations on using the Internet. Chinese army never supports any kind of 
network hacker activity. However, some U.S. companies and media, for a variety 
of purposes, deliberately created and spread the "China hacker threat theory" 
which is undoubtedly destructive to the overall situation of China-US relations 
and extremely irresponsible.

A U.S. company published a report saying China's official has paid enough "due 
respect" by coming forward with a response. Indeed, there is no need to say 
anything to such ridiculous unprofessional hype. But because they are being too 
mean and irresponsible, we must laugh at any false accusation and set things 
straight.


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