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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.

The Chinese Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against "organisations and individuals" making "false claims" about the security of Chinese-made devices.

It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.

The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.

The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.

Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.

You will like Chinese products, or else.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:59PM (#419479)

    INTENTIONAL! Its a brilliant scheme, get users around the world to pay for and maintain a massive botnet.

    Please don't pull out Hanlon's razor, at this point in time we should all realize that there are huge efforts being made across the world to spy on citizens and undermine political opposition. Often these efforts are well concealed behind plausible deniability, specifically so any opponents will be divided into "crazy conspiracy theorists" and "worried skeptics". In this day and age anyone who has "reason" on their side has the high ground, so if you believe something without concrete evidence then you are a heretic. The deep irony in this situation could be funny if the consequences weren't so damned important.

    Regarding spying and complicity of the telco / tech giants, someone said "What do you expect them to do? Just shut down? Cause that's what the government will do if they don't comply." It plays into the power game, using power to define the rules of engagement. Only when someone changes the rules, says no when told to do something, is change actually possible.

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