NationStates Jolt Archive

"CNN is reporting that they were the target of a Denial of Service attack yesterday. According to the article, there have been reports on Asian tech sites that Chinese hackers were targeting CNN for their coverage of the unrest in Tibet. One has to wonder if this hacking attempt was government sponsored or not. The Chinese government hasn't been very happy with CNN -- in fact, the Beijing Bureau Chief has been summoned about a day before this happened."

Source (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/1149219&from=rss)

I hope the Chinese government wasn't behind this. I wouldn't put it past them, of course. But I don't like the implications that would have.

Would the Chinese government do this? I don't think so. They couldn't really think it would achieve anything.

Now some Chinese citizens, that's another story.

I've always said the Chinese Government would be the Epic Boss Fight for Anonymous after $cientology, and this is just more proof.

pfft like anyone watches CNN :p

though Chinamen have been boycotting French companies (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/world/asia/20china.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin) for the whole protests fiasco so I guess we are looking at a nation of boring soccer moms out buying only Chinese and stuff

(on a side note I found some stupid Americans whilst searching) (http://webwonks.org/Extra/boycott/boycott.html)

i'm sure china was involved

The Save Darfur Coalition & possibly some other Darfur activism sites also claimed that Chinese hackers were behind attacks on their servers. (Link (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070778))
Chinese hackers, maybe...I don't know if it makes sense for the Chinese government to do so, but then again they have such a credibility problem with the international press ("Tibet? We, uh...had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here...in Tibet...now...thank you. How are you?") that just an official denial that they had anything to do with it doesn't make any difference.

i'm sure china was involved

Why?

Why?

The Chinese Government as an official entity has nothing to do with it of course. But that doesn't mean some covert group or lone individuals working on behalf of China or even ultranationalist vigilantes aren't involved in the cyberattacks.

Why?

because they internet says so, have we ever steered you wrong before?

It may have been China, it may not have been, we don't know enough to say.

I don't think it's implausible that the Chinese were involved though: Beijing's been investing quite a lot of resources into 'cyber warfare' and they may have seen this as a good opportunity to test their capabilities against a major public-website.

It may have been China, it may not have been, we don't know enough to say.

I don't think it's implausible that the Chinese were involved though: Beijing's been investing quite a lot of resources into 'cyber warfare' and they may have seen this as a good opportunity to test their capabilities against a major public-website.

With a DOS or DDOS ... this hardly bespeaks of "capabilities" and is a bad idea to "test" in most cases before a real attack.

Its blunt, reliable, simple and really nothing special. It is also usually easy to deflect after being detected

Given the role that DoS attacks have begun to play in the Baltic states, to say that it is beyond comprehension that the Chinese government has begun to emulate the behaviors of the Russian government in this sphere, as a slightly covert tool to strike at those who do things they don't like, but cannot lash out at in the normal ways.

Goldfarmers are probably actually Chinese nationalists out to ruin the Western playing experience.

It's the citizens. They actually love their country and government, contrary to popular belief here in the propaganda-loaded West.