China calls US culprit in global 'Internet war'

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Source: AP

BEIJING – The Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global "Internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments, redirecting the spotlight away from allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China.

The accusations Friday by Chinese military academy scholars, and their urging of tougher policing of the Internet, followed allegations this week that computer hackers in China had compromised the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including government officials, military personnel and political activists.

Google traced the origin of the attacks to the city of Jinan that is home to a military vocational school whose computers were linked to a more sophisticated assault on Google's systems 17 months ago. China has denied responsibility for the two attacks.

Writing in the Communist Party-controlled China Youth Daily newspaper, the scholars did not mention Google's claims, but said recent computer attacks and incidents employing the Internet to promote regime change in Arab nations appeared to have originated with the U.S. government.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110603/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_google

[Poll_Blind]

1. Pot. Kettle. Black.

PB

[leveymg]

2. Regime change - us? Cyberattacks - China? Never. . .

:nuke: :argh: :spank: :hide: :yoiks:

[No Elephants]

8. Nailed!

[bemildred]

3. Oh good.

Incoherence all around.
:popcorn:

[SpiralHawk]

4. "We have always been at cyberwar with East Asia." - Big Bro, Inc.

"Put down that cursor, and back away slowly."

- Big Bro, Inc.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Both probably guilty but two seperate issues.

The Chinese were not promoting regime change.

[gratuitous]

6. We're the only ones who get to snoop on the Internet

China trying to work our side of the street, eh? Well, we've come out now to warn everyone else that if they do what we did to Iran, they'll be in big trouble. See, it's okay for us to do it, because we're exceptionally exceptional. But if anyone else tries it, of course you know this means war!

[leeroysphitz]

7. Somehere in the U.S. sits a lonely ICBM with the coordinates of Jinan already punched into

it's guidance computer just waiting for a couple of keys to be turned and a few other buttons to be pushed.

Hack THAT motherfuckers.

The missle knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't...

[sudopod]

10. You don't think that's a bit of an over reaction?

They hacked my G-mail

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I vaporized their civilization.

[leeroysphitz]

11. Well if everybody is going to keep calling it cyber WARFARE I thought I

would just take the scenario to it's logical conclusion.

[Javaman]

9. let the stupid poop flinging being...

first the US claims it will declare war on anyone found to commit cyber crimes.

They then point a casual but vague wave of the hand toward china.

china gets pissed and dishes it right back.

So I ask again, when will the US start bombing china?

The problem with rhetoric is, sometimes you get called on it.

china is calling bullshit on the bullshitter.

And for info sake: we do the same shit, cyber-wise, as china and russia and countless other nations do to us.