It seems that students in China may be modeling themselves after a Jackie Chan movie and playing catch-me if you can. Harking back to a piece I wrote about Google being hacked, more evidence has been revealed that the real perpetrators may be high school students.
Now, the New York Times says, “the attacks came from China but not necessarily from the Chinese government, or even from Chinese sources.”
The NSA traced some of the attacks to servers in Taiwan. Then a United States military contractor that faced the same attacks as Google has also led investigators to suspect a link to a specific computer science class, taught by a Ukrainian professor at a vocational school in east China’s Shandong Province. Last week, in another hacking incident, the trail led through China to Germany where that other attack originated.
Photo of Berlin wall courtesy of http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk/west/berlin/slides/berlinwall0970.htm
What is most disturbing is the knee jerk reaction that took place when shortly after Google went public with its accusations against China without evidence, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged the Chinese in a speech on Internet censors, suggesting China’s efforts to control open access to the Internet were in effect an information-age Berlin Wall.
This is not the way to build trust with other governments. The wise thing to do would have been to wait until all the evidence was in before deciding who was guilty. It’s also interesting to know that this vocational school is operated by a company with close ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China and Google’s competitor.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of The Concubine Saga. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too. This is the love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.
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