This is rich: Chinese Official Accuses Nations of Hacking. Of course we all know how honest the Chinese government is. For example, the Tiananmen Square massacre is something they try to hide on their side of the Great Firewall. This is an obvious attempt to turn the tables on the recent reports of Chinese hacking American government networks.
When the reports about Chinese hacking surfaced early this month, the Chinese Foreign Ministry roundly denied them, saying China would never resort to such tactics. Foreign specialists recalled at the time, however, that the People's Liberation Army is believed to have an active information warfare program — as do most advanced militaries — as part of its effort to gain the ability to protect its own computer systems and disable those of adversaries.
The hacking recently alleged in Washington, London and Berlin — and now Beijing — was described as something different, an attempt to burrow into government computers to gain secrets. As such, it appeared to fall more clearly into the domain of espionage.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asked late last month whether she had brought up the issue during talks here with Chinese leaders, said, "We must together respect a set of game rules." Premier Wen Jiabao, with whom Merkel had just met, said hacking is a problem faced by all countries and should be combated jointly.
Striking a different tone, Lou said China should also consider the Internet in a larger sense as a threat to its security. He said the United States and other Western countries use advanced technology "to create an information hegemony" and relay unfavorable news from China, raising the risk of social instability.
These countries "have made the Internet a very important channel to infiltrate our politics, strengthening the delivery of Western democracy and values," he added. "More and more frequently, they organize writers to create bad information, exaggerating things that are inharmonious with our development and raise the specter of the China threat on the international scene."
The emphasis is mine. One noticeable thing missing from this is the skepticism applied to our own government. When the Chinese government speaks officially, they are admittedly manipulating information to prevent "social instability". Yet this story seems like a press release from the Chinese government.
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