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The Huffington Post has a story of what must be seen as the height of absurdity. As part of the fallout from the recent indictments of 5 PLA cyber-spies, China is threatening to suspend cooperation on joint US-Chinese cyber-security efforts. What can the world's two biggest players in industrial espionage possibly be cooperating on?
The linked story notes that efforts so far have been largely ineffective. Is there anything the US could realistically do? An IP block sounds tempting, but VPNs render that largely ineffective. Fund open-source firewalls or "advanced persistent threat" filters or ...?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday May 20 2014, @05:32PM
The US seems to stage these grand standing moves at precisely the time they need to suppress some other news.
So days after Cisco's blistering letter to Obama [soylentnews.org] about intercepting and compromising routers shipped overseas, the US make a big deal about indicting people they will never get their hands on. (And who will probably be given medals for their accomplishments).
But the letter to Obama seems hardly enough to justify this kind of silliness. I suspect, somewhere in the dark, another shoe is dropping, and the CIA/NSA has something going on, or is in trouble, and needs a diversion.
Previously, they made a big deal about blocking Hauwei networking equipment [wikipedia.org] sales to the west, due to military ties and spying. Then In 2014 the New York Times reported, based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden, that the U.S. National Security Agency has since 2007 been operating a covert program against Huawei, and is alledged to have compromised Huawei's router software.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday May 22 2014, @04:41PM
Yup they're stuck in a nice chaotic feedback loop that won't end any time soon. So they do something, and then they have to start backtracking and modifying and responding while they stonewall it publicly. Meanwhile not everyone gets the multiple conflicting memos because whatever is happening is not public official government business or anything close to legal or ethical and then another mess is complete which will never be resolved in their favor. Hit repeat and increase the speed.
Let's see what happens when the "72 hours" thing is up, maybe they'll launch a nuke now that they have it on paper that they can't retake their own nuclear silos. Hey maybe they'll target Bahamas in order to remove some evidence :D
And since they're promising violence the bets would be it's a muslim nation like Iraq or anywhere with money like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, or the Emirates. Because wouldn't money be the main reason to keep every conversation in Bahamas? Wikileaks flicked the racism card in Oblamma's face so whatever country it is it's not predominately inhabited by white-colored people... maybe it's Sweden?
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