Two Chinese Schools Reportedly Tied To Online Attacks

squidw* writes "Online attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. From the NY Times: '... the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets and computer codes and capturing e-mail of Chinese human rights activists, may have begun as early as April, months earlier than previously believed. ... The Chinese schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School, according to several people with knowledge of the investigation who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the inquiry. Jiaotong has one of China’s top computer science programs. Just a few weeks ago its students won an international computer programming competition organized by IBM — the “Battle of the Brains” — beating out Stanford and other top-flight universities. Lanxiang, in east China’s Shandong Province, is a huge vocational school that was established with military support and trains some computer scientists for the military.'"

The most awesome vocational school in the world

[lobsterturd]

Shanghai Jiaotong University? Fair enough. But also see Roland Soong's translations about the vocational school [zonaeuropa.com].

Re:The racist 1940s

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the German Americans? You can pin everything on racism all day long, but much of the same distrust of Japanese people were also directed towards people of the same race.

http://www.foitimes.com/internment/ [foitimes.com]

Re:Yeah. So what?

[Anonymous Coward]

You have it VERY wrong. This is not about the TYPE of an economic system. This is about the type of gov that you are ok with. Many Chinese are willing to accept the CURRENT situation only because they have not known economic freedom. HOWEVER, the Chinese gov will NOT give up control. And neither will the other govs that are slowly moving in. Take the example of Venezuela. They freely elected Chavez. Great. I say more power to them. HOWEVER, now, he has amended their constitution to allow himself to run forever (he was term limited). In addition, he is shutting down private new media AND controlling their polls.

At this time, China DOES need us, but they are working to break that. The problem is that American companies do not care, nor are they paying attention. China is busy stealing tech. In addition, they have fixed their money to the dollar, put up trade barriers, dump their products, and subsidize their own goods. This is designed to drain the west of their manufacturing capabilities.

This is a Cold war. We are losing it because of people that do not pay attention. Far too many Americans are being corrupted in the pursuit of the all mighty dollar.

You going to boycott the US government?

[Colin Smith]

Cos China owns trillions of US government bonds, which your income taxes pay for.

 

Re:Hum.

[m.ducharme]

China's already started dumping its T-bills. Strangely, this doesn't seem to be getting a lot of play in the media...I wonder why?

Times of India [indiatimes.com]

Reuters [reuters.com]

Re:Verbal diarrhea

[tabdelgawad]

This is not a leak. It's a standard way of releasing information to the public without having to make an official statement/accusation. And the New York Times doesn't pay for information, period. Don't you (and your moderators) read any newspapers?!