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In article <8XAJ6.11$Bv4.830@burlma1-snr2>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <9d6jls$1k7$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>,
>Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>In <9d6bit$ooh$1@caerulus.cerintha.com> "Michael Scheidell"
>><me2@privacy.net> writes:
>>
>>Lets, see the following set of sentences.
>>
>>]Chinese hackers have broken into dozens of small computers, unprotected
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Those are a general, not a Chinese hacker problem, sure thing.

>>...
>>]The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre said Chinese hackers had
>>]publicly discussed increasing their activity with May 7, the second
>>...
>>]last night had shut down six of them. The identity and whereabouts of the
>>]hackers using those servers is not known."
>>
>>
>>So, the hackers are unknown but are "Known" to be Chinese? What kind of
>>jingoistic nonsense is this?
>
>What's so hard to understand?  The Chinese cracker community let out the
>word that they were planning an attack, in comemmoration of a date of
>significance in Sino-American relations.  But we don't know the individuals
>involved, just that they're members of this community.  It's not jingoism,
>just limited information.
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As a non US citizen ... is it possible that all the talk about "The Chinese
bringing the world to a grinding halt" caused some, Chinese or not Chinese
or half Chinese half something else, clowns to, aehm, try ?

And did actually something significant happen ? I mean if they'd brought
down 50% of all adult sites, oh my, that would have been something, but
else ?

Just checking as quite a fuss has been made about all that and some German
sites at least had to go off the hook for a while, too. Still mostly business
as usual AFAICT.

Happy hacking,
Juergen

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