China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest

[stax]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube to foment unrest in Iran.

The People's Daily accused the United States of controlling the Internet in the name of Internet freedom after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for more Internet freedoms in China and elsewhere in a speech on Thursday.

China on Friday warned that Washington's push against Internet censorship could harm ties.

"Behind what America calls free speech is naked political scheming. How did the unrest after the Iranian elections come about?" said the editorial, signed by Wang Xiaoyang.

"It was because online warfare launched by America, via Youtube video and Twitter microblogging, spread rumors, created splits, stirred up, and sowed discord between the followers of conservative reformist factions."

China has blocked Youtube since March, the anniversary of uprisings in Tibet, and Twitter since June, just before the 20th anniversary of a crackdown on protestors in and near Tiananmen Square. Facebook has been down since early July.

The People's Daily editorial asked rhetorically if obscene information or activities promoting terrorism would be allowed on the Internet in the U.S.

"We're afraid that in the eyes of American politicians, only information controlled by America is free information, only news acknowledged by America is free news, only speech approved by America is free speech, and only information flow that suits American interests is free information flow," it said.

Clinton's speech came shortly after Google revealed a sophisticated hacking attack, and said it might close its google.cn Chinese search engine if it could not find a way to offer a legal, unfiltered search service in China.

"Everyone with technical knowledge of computers knows that just because a hacker used an IP address in China, the attack was not necessarily launched by a Chinese hacker," Zhou Yonglin, deputy operations director of the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team, said in an interview carried in a number of Chinese newspapers on Sunday.

Zhou mentioned an outage suffered by Chinese search engine Baidu on January 12 but did not mention that it was attacked by the Iranian Cyber Army, which had previously attacked Twitter, nor that Chinese hackers launched retaliatory attacks on Iranian sites the next day.

The People's Daily also denounced a May ban on Microsoft's instant messaging services to nations covered by U.S. sanctions, including Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea, as violating the U.S. stated desire for free information flow.

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China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest - Yahoo! News

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Well done! The entire intelligent world knows it was Israeli-US cyber attacks that instigated the unrest in Iran. What just happened was China took the gloves off the hands. Let's see how soon Russia (through Pravda) will release the same factoid.

 

[gambit]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube to foment unrest in Iran.

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"Everyone with technical knowledge of computers knows that just because a hacker used an IP address in China, the attack was not necessarily launched by a Chinese hacker," Zhou Yonglin, deputy operations director of the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team, said in an interview carried in a number of Chinese newspapers on Sunday.

Zhou mentioned an outage suffered by Chinese search engine Baidu on January 12 but did not mention that it was attacked by the Iranian Cyber Army, which had previously attacked Twitter, nor that Chinese hackers launched retaliatory attacks on Iranian sites the next day.

That is funny...First he cast doubts that the attack on Google's database came from mainland China. But then he is certain that it was Iran who broke into Baidu.

 

[stax]

That is funny...First he cast doubts that the attack on Google's database came from mainland China. But then he is certain that it was Iran who broke into Baidu.

Please read carefully:

Zhou mentioned an outage suffered by Chinese search engine Baidu on January 12 but did not mention that it was attacked by the Iranian Cyber Army

 

[592257001]

This is soooo TRUE!!!

 

[stax]

That is funny...First he cast doubts that the attack on Google's database came from mainland China. But then he is certain that it was Iran who broke into Baidu.

Most Chinese believe that US attacked Baidu and backstab Iran.
Don't tell me US cyber army don't have such ability.

 

[xdrive]

China on Friday warned that Washington's push against Internet censorship could harm ties.

BAHAHAHAH.

Internet censorship is bad, end of story. Their is not justification behind it. The Chinese government is just being silly.

Thank god i live in a free country.

Also it's a bit hypocritical for the chinese government to accus the U.S goverment of cyber attacks, when the chinese are well known to be doing cyber attacks. That's why google are shutting down in china.

That's why my government just opened a new defence department cyber division, because out computers keep getting hacked by hackers in china, the same with the U.S

 

[stax]

BAHAHAHAH.

Internet censorship is bad, end of story. Their is not justification behind it. The Chinese government is just being silly.

Thank god i live in a free country.

Also it's a bit hypocritical for the chinese government to accus the U.S goverment of cyber attacks, when the chinese are well known to be doing cyber attacks. That's why google are shutting down in china.

That's why my government just opened a new defence department cyber division, because out computers keep getting hacked by hackers in china, the same with the U.S

I read lots of your western media's description of China's censorship. In your mind that China government must free the speech such as"Tibet independant" and "Uygur independant".

I can tell you that separatism in China could never have free speech. Our Chinese will lay down our lives to protect our country!

 

[xdrive]

I read lots of your western media's description of China's censorship. In your mind that China government must free the speech such as"Tibet independant" and "Uygur independant".

I can tell you that separatism in China could never have free speech. Our Chinese will lay down our lives to protect our country!

Yes they must let people say those things. It's called free speech. rofl. Shows just how out of touch and brainwashed everyone is in china.

In my country, i can go out on the street and scream something like "Death to Australia" or something like that, and nothing would happen to me because thats free speech. I can walk up to my prime minister and called him a ******* idiot and nothing would happen to me.

That's free speech. You couldn't do that in china of course. I don't even think you could comprehend free speech.

China also censors Chinese human rights websites, can you justify that?

 

[stax]

Yes they must let people say those things. It's called free speech.

Could Bin Laden or his supporters have a free speech about "Anti US" in US?
Western countries are so hypocritical!

 

[Supersonic26]

China tryied to hack google.
America hacked Baidu.
What's wrong in that? You get what u do. As far as i know its russian and american hackers which are way ahead then chinese hackers. Any wrong move by chinese hackers will cost china. American hackers might be planning more. While russian hackers known as silent killers. i never visit websites that ends with '.ru' because russians master of all hackers.
@ all guys.

 

[xdrive]

Could Bin Laden or his supporters have a free speech about "Anti US" in US?
Western countries are so hypocritical!

Yes they could. Once again, it's called free speech. See you don't even know this. And you are so quick to call western countries "hypocritical"

In a country where there is free speech, you can say whatever you want, without the fear of arrest.

In china you would say something like "i hate the government" you would be arrested. If you post, you get arrested.

 

[xdrive]

China tryied to hack google.
America hacked Baidu.
What's wrong in that? You get what u do. As far as i know its russian and american hackers which are way ahead then chinese hackers. Any wrong move by chinese hackers will cost china. American hackers might be planning more. While russian hackers known as silent killers. i never visit websites that ends with '.ru' because russians master of all hackers.
@ all guys.

Chinese hackers are the ones who are hacking the post. They are hacking defence department computers in 10+ countries. They are hacking google gmail accounts of human rights activists.

 

[grey boy 2]

Accusation of Chinese government's participation in cyber attack "groundless": ministry - People's Daily Online
January 25, 2010

China restated on Sunday its resolute opposition to claims that the government was involved in cyber attack and vowed to enhance cooperation with international community to fight against Internet crimes.

"Accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China. We firmly opposed to that," spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Sunday.

"China's policy on Internet safety is transparent and consistent," he said.

Internet security was a global concern which required international coordinated efforts. China was willing to deepen cooperation with other countries and learn from their experiences to make Internet a better place, he said.

The spokesman's remarks came nearly two weeks after search engine giant Google said it might quit China citing disagreements with government policies and unidentified attacks targeting Google's services in China.

"China is the biggest victim country of hacking as its Internet has long been facing severe threats of hacker and online virus attacks," the spokesman said.

Official data showed more than one million IP addresses were under control by overseas sources and the number of Web sites tampered by hackers exceeded 42,000 last year.

The widespread Conficker worm virus infected 18 million computers per month in 2009, the most in the world, or 30 percent of the global total infected.

According to the Internet Society of China, the number of cyber attacks from abroad saw a year-on-year increase of 148 percent in 2008.

They not only affected a large number of netizens but also sectors of finance, transportation and energy, which posed severe harm to economic development and people's lives, the spokesman said.

He noted the Chinese government had issued various regulations and launched many Internet safety campaigns against the attacks.

The National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team dealt with more than 1,000 Web accidents in 2009 and helped recover economic losses for many banks and E-business Web sites.

China has also taken part in the Internet safety emergency drill organized by the ASEAN countries for many times, and signed cooperation pacts with member countries of regional organizations in Asia.

Source:Xinhua

 

[hero]

Is google china already closed or yet to close? I think google is trying to put pressure chinese gov.