China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector (reuters.com) 52
New submitter tychoS writes from a report via Reuters: China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyberattacks against each other aimed at stealing trade secrets or other confidential business information. The new agreement was reached during talks between Canada's national security and intelligence adviser, Daniel Jean, and senior communist party official Wang Yongqing, a statement dated June 22 on the Canadian government's website showed. "This is something that three or four years ago (Beijing) would not even have entertained in the conversation," an unnamed Canadian government official told the Globe and Mail, which first reported the agreement. The new agreement only covers economic cyber-espionage, which includes hacking corporate secrets and proprietary technology, but does not deal with state-sponsored cyber spying for intelligence gathering.
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Good, because it's bullshit. Anyone who trusts China is an imbecile.
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Why on Earth do you imagine that it's Canada that was duped by China here?
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Preach.
Today, President Obama, appearing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, announced that the United States and China had reached an agreement to curb "cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property" between the two countries. Obama, at the announcement, said he had "indicated it has to stop," and that the two had come to a "common understanding."
https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9399187/obama-china-cyber-security-agreement [theverge.com]
Re: As a representive of the US (Score:1)
Nor should you, this is the cyber equivalent of "we have peace in our time".
Re:hilarious (Score:5, Funny)
A harshly worded letter.
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I forgot to add the "Sorry" my bad.
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Except it's cyber, so you'll never know who really sent it.
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I guess Canada hasn't anything like this to take.
NSA Details Chinese Cyber Theft of F-35, Military Secrets
Well.. Isn't the joke on them?
Don't read this:
JK. I assume F-35 isn't a disaster. Maybe not F-22 either. At-least if we keep on using manned planes and over a longer time. Not interested in arguing it just making a joke.
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The problem is with this sort of agreement, is that everyone assumes it doesn't work, but no one notices when it does.
When Obama signed a cyber espionage agreement with China during his presidency everyone said the same thing, but he did so shortly after the US had issued indictments for a number of top Chinese military officials assigned to hacking duties - it wasn't until afterwards that it turned out that the photos used in those indictments were personal images taken from each of those officials persona
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But I could be wrong.
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Spam bot? thats all i can think. A shitty one at that.
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Because fools like you don't read the source, here's the skinny
NO large, multicity establishments were included in the study BECAUSE INCLUDING THEM WOULD VITIATE THE CLAIM BY NBER, the entire study is a fraud
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You have to admit, I bring the best out in ACs.
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The Almighty says this must be a fashionable fight. It's drawn the finest people.
Canada is being foolish (Score:2)
However, China will continue to crack all nation's computers.
They will simply outsource it to citizens and pay them for doing it.
Re: Canada is being foolish (Score:1)
"China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other."
Yes, there's the loophole. They can just follow the Russian example and say it's not us, where's the proof, it's all MSM lies and you can't trust your intelligence agencies after Iraq.
It's not as if anyone ever owns up with, "Yes, we stole the plans for your new jet, but it's OK, we're state-sponsored."
Also, if there are any state-sponsored hackers reading this, do you get free stuff with your
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"State-sponsored" already means the government outsourcing it to citizens and paying for it, so the treaty is saying they won't do that. Of course it's quite possible China will break the treaty. But if Canada already planned to not hack Chinese companies for economic espionage, then what do they have to lose from the treaty? Nothing.
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Much more detail here https://www.theglobeandmail.co... [theglobeandmail.com]. So an agreement by both governments not to hack each others corporate networks but government networks are still all right to hack and of course us nobodies, well, fuck the nobodies, hack away.
Pretty fucking shitty agreement Canada, fuck you. Next time there is an agreement, how about fucking people come first for a a fucking change instead of fucking corporations, fucking hell.
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Almost by definition, us "nobodies" aren't worth hacking. We're not talking about botnets and ransomware here. We're talking about dedicated efforts to steal or damage critical (or at least very valuable) information.
In this case, there's absolutely no reason to "put people first." Why would they go to the trouble of international negotiations to stop hacking against targets that wouldn't be getting hacked anyway? Or at least not hacked in the way that this agreement would be attempting to prevent.
It wasn't theft (Score:2)
Do you think we can trust him? (Score:3)
Myself I’d trust him to the end of the earth.
Yes but how far is that?
About twelve minutes away. Come on I need a drink
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And don't forget your towel.
Don't have to hack Canada (Score:2)
Chinese companies have plenty of money so they can just come in and buy up pretty much any company they want. There are very few companies that the government would prevent a foreign company from buying except for certain sectors such as banking, airlines, telecom, and media. I wish the Chinese would buy up Bombardier because I'm tired of them always asking for more government assistance and then cutting jobs.
State vs state (Score:2)
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While I agree its weird, it probably benefits us as much or possibly more than it benefits them. Canada certainly isn't irrelevant on the world stage, but nor are we exactly a superpower that would be any sort of a threat to China. So Canada would have limited usefulness as a target to be hacked.
On the other hand, while we may ourselves not have much reason to hack China (again, what would we do with the information we gleaned? Threaten them?) But we have a neighbor we're pretty friendly with who would
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Erm.
NATO. Shared military secrets. Any planes / high tech military hardware we buy, come with full specs on how to repair. Learn how to hack our planes, you learn how to hack allies' planes.
GoC contracts. Shared military drills. Military defense plans for NATO / North America. Outcomes of war games, war simulations, shared with all allies. Studies and tests on munitions, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. (Yes, we do this, we simulate this).
There's *tonnes* to obtain through state to state ha
Canadian companies or companies in Canada? (Score:2)
A little late, don't you think? (Score:2)
In 2004, it was discovered that crackers ... gained almost complete access to Nortel's systems. Thought to have originated in 2000, for nearly ten years they accessed documents including emails, technical papers, research, development reports, and business plans. ... The Wall Street Journal reports that hackers working from Chinese IP addresses used seven passwords of Nortel executives, including a former CEO, to penetrate networks owned by the company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel/ [wikipedia.org]