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2005-09-08 Home Front: WoT

State Department confirms Chinese cyber attacks

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 RB got some comment spam from China yesterday, but the AoS acted quickly to restore order and Fred's levee firewall has been reinforced. Die spammers die.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-08 00:14|| 2005-09-08 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Die spammers die.

May as well be the same way like that Russian dude.

Posted by twobyfour 2005-09-08 01:02|| 2005-09-08 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Pff...the ignorance on these issues is astounding. Everyone seems to assume that the Chinese government is behind this.

The internet is totally disconnected from geography. If I want to attack US servers, I can do it from anywhere I want to. As a matter of fact, it's only common sense to disguise your true location.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-09-08 01:19|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-09-08 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 China's sheer number of unprotected and zombie systems is a part of this problem. Most people don't have legal copies of the operating system they use. Chinese rarely if ever secure them with firewall and anti virus protection. They also don't patch them as they are bootleg copies and don't have that option. They just reformat and reinstall when the systems finally crash. Knowing where many of these "attacks" actually come from is hard to establish. I suggest taking much salt with people you claim to know where attacks really originate.

Most of the spam out of China is actually sent by US spammers. These attacks could be the same type of thing.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-08 02:19|| 2005-09-08 02:19|| Front Page Top

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