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China Worries Hackers Will Strike During Beijing Olympics

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 24 April 2008 - 09:28 · 16 comments & 8442 views

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While CNN recently faced distributed denial-of-service attacks from Chinese hackers angry about the television network's coverage of a recent Chinese crackdown in Tibet, Chinese security officials remain worried hackers will strike while the Olympic Games are being held in Beijing.

"Based on historical experience, many hackers seeking to make a name for themselves view the Olympic Games as a challenge and a target, and the Beijing Olympics may face attacks from individual hackers, groups, organizations, as well as other countries and those with all kinds of political motivations, therefore the network security situation is very grim," China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) said in a report released earlier this month. A high-profile attack on Chinese computer systems during the Beijing Olympics would be a serious blow to organizers and the government, which has worked hard to position the Games as a celebration of the economic and social strides made by China since embarking on reforms 30 years ago.

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#1 BBinder on 24 Apr 2008 - 10:05
they deserve to be hacked

free tibet
#2 OblivionStalker on 24 Apr 2008 - 10:14
Hahaha, lol.

The Greeks deserve to be hacked too.

We are Macedonians.

I feel a mod is coming to delete these posts.
(3 replies) #3 jwjw1 on 24 Apr 2008 - 10:59
there's an old saying....'what goes around comes around.'
#3.1 sweetsam on 24 Apr 2008 - 13:43
(jwjw1 said @ #3)
there's an old saying....'what goes around comes around.'


So true !
#3.2 likeAP on 25 Apr 2008 - 05:18
(jwjw1 said @ #3)
there's an old saying....'what goes around comes around.'


exactly, that's why 911 happened.
#3.3 bjc4ever on 25 Apr 2008 - 09:19
lol, nice one...

btw, does the AP in your name stand for Acetone Peroxide?
(3 replies) #4 atari800 on 24 Apr 2008 - 11:15
Hacking SHOULD be part of the Olympic games
#4.1 El Sid on 24 Apr 2008 - 12:04
Nah because then every archer and Biathlete would need punkbuster installed to make sure they weren't using an aimbot
#4.2 williamhook on 24 Apr 2008 - 12:44
(El Sid said @ #4.1)
Nah because then every archer and Biathlete would need punkbuster installed to make sure they weren't using an aimbot
Comment of the year, imo.
#4.3 ZombieFly on 24 Apr 2008 - 13:01
(El Sid said @ #4.1)
Nah because then every archer and Biathlete would need punkbuster installed to make sure they weren't using an aimbot


genius post!
#5 n_K on 24 Apr 2008 - 14:13
hope they **** up the chinese site, people and leaders, if russia nuked them it would sort things out (the leaders) especially if they all went radioactive green
(1 reply) #6 leesmithg on 24 Apr 2008 - 15:16
There is no real difference, though a few hundred thousand or if not millions less people lost their, homes, lives or liberty
than done by the Chinese, than what USA, UK, Europe, Australia NZ etc in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea.....Etc Etc.

Within 5 years China will be a mass super power with India, Britain and the United States, they will merely be their bitches.
#6.1 Magallanes on 24 Apr 2008 - 18:48
So it's time to publish propaganda against the chinese government.

#7 +Octol on 24 Apr 2008 - 21:46
Hey, the Chinese now own us all! And although we could shake 'em off by not buying their consumer products, that's not ever going to happen, so we might as well get used to being owned.

At this point, I strongly suggest learning Mandarin Chinese to promote better communication with our new masters. That would also make it easier for those so inclined to start kissing Communist Chinese ass.
#8 sibot on 27 Apr 2008 - 08:46
Aren't the Chinese who are really hacking everyone else? what are they afraid of? their own people?
#9 chooser on 27 Apr 2008 - 19:03
Maybe they're afraid of all the human right groups out there.

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