HAhahahaha done to make it appear as if it's their own.
Espionage involving China
- Thread starter kroko
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HAhahahaha done to make it appear as if it's their own.
I won't trust such news from reuters of all places. I think the Chinese side knows what they are doing since they've been against the US hackers and infiltrators for over the last decade.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Firstly, the credibility of such news is always sus, as they reply on ‘anonymous security sources’, and western intelligence affiliated entities who could just be feeding them fake news.
Secondly, even if the news is true, no evidence (or even basic outlines of methods) is ever presented to show any links to China. VPN would be pointless is it was so easy to unwind to trace back to true source. More likely western intelligence agencies don’t have ready access to back doors and master codes with Chinese servers as they do with those made by western companies, and located in western or western controlled territories, so their IP tracing dead ends whenever a reroute server goes through China and they just decided to blame it on China.
Lastly, even if this was indeed the work of Chinese state hackers, so what? As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Why spend years reinventing the wheel when you can use ready made?
On top of the time saving, there could be a lot of benefits to deliberately using CIA codes, as a lot of the western cybersecurity outfits would probably just let you through and look the other way when they detect your activity as they think it’s their paymasters the CIA doing the dirty.
It also makes sense to use stolen CIA codes for high risk ops as if discovered, you don’t reveal your own codes and capabilities.
More likely answer is that both NSA and Chinese coders were copying answers from StackOverflow.
Looks like another coloured revolution attempt detected and foiled. This time in Chengdu in the aftermath of that suicide case by high school student.
By the way if you're in China and thinking of getting yourself that sweet sweet 500k RMB, be aware that 500k is probably the max amount of bounty the MSS will pay, you're unlikely to get a big reward by reporting in small fries like these, but still, money is money and you'll be doing your duty.
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Can you briefly explain what happened?
Reddit was celebrating that the CPC was finally getting overthrown lol!
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Basically cookie cutter copy paste colour revolution playbook tricks being applied.
Online you have new throwaway accounts (using international version of apps as opposed to Chinese domestic versions, and often using traditional characters as opposed to traditional) taking a shit spraying approach of posting massive numbers of fake stories and seeing what sticks/gains traction. With big accounts with lots of followers then reposting/liking those stories to maximise exposure.
You also have spammers telling people to repost/like these fake news stories, with the promise of 1 in xxx number getting 200 yuan as a way to inflate numbers and manufacture interest.
On ground you have overwhelmingly non-locals moving in to protest outside of the school. When a school representative came out to speak to the crowd, none of the idiots could understand what she was saying because she had a strong sichuan local accent. So the crowd started shouting slogans in standard mandarin and started to physically assault the school rep. As soon as police moved in they started screaming police brutality.
Classic western intelligence chaos seeding tactics to manufacture issues from nothing and using fake news to get their lies out before the police has even had time to start investigating and drowning out the true with an avalanche of shit and lies.