fficial Acknowledgment of Inferiority?! -- Beijing Claims Computers Hacked
-- Micky's humble opinion: Like China's faked products, Chinese
government's imitation statement ignored some important facts: China is
the only country built a "Great Fire Wall" named "Golden Shield" , China
is the only country who deployed a net-army numbering in hundreds of
thousands, are these "extra efforts" with chinese characteristics all for
nothing? --
Beijing Claims Computers Hacked
By Xiao Jing
Voice of America
Sep 15, 2007
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WASHINGTON D.C.—China's Ministry of Information Industry recently
claimed that large amounts of state and military confidential data were
stolen through the Internet. Foreign enemies are using the Internet as a
major destructive tool.
However, dissidents think the statement is an excuse to intensify
Beijing's control over the Internet and to repudiate western countries
recent accusations of Beijing hacking into western governments websites.
In the September issue of Forum for Chinese Party and Government Staff,
an official publication of the China Central Party School, Lou Qinjian,
Deputy Minister for Information Industry, said in an article that the
Internet has become foreign enemies' major tool for political
infiltration and hacking into high priority departments.
Lou also claims that in recent years large amounts of confidential
documents from the Party, the government, and the military have been
stolen through the Internet and have caused Beijing great harm. Lou
declined to give details of the espionage but urged Beijing to take
sweeping measures to monitor all Internet information in order to stop
computer threats.
Recently Beijing denied western media's reports accusing them of hacking
into government computers in the U.S., Germany, and England. Some
observers believe Beijing's accusation of western hackers at this
particular moment is to denounce western media reports and find an
excuse to further control Internet information.
Huang Qi, administrator of 64tianwang.com and renowned dissident, said
Beijing's statement of confidential information leaking through Internet
isn't logical, "A lot of cases of military corruption and human rights
violation against veterans are exposed on the Internet. The authorities
claimed that is 'leaking military secrets.' Authorities often
oversimplify the classification and eventually put public information or
human rights violation news as confidential, and suppress it".
An observer said human rights ideology is widespread in China now and
people want to participate in politics. The arrival of the Internet
helps people to voice their opinion more powerfully. Beijing senses this
trend is threatening its dictatorship and has to continue to intensify
its suppression of information freedom.
Huang said that the Internet provides a powerful publication tool for a
democratic movement in China. It's getting harder for Beijing to block
any information it wants. Technically China can maximize its suppression
of freedom on the Internet but not beyond a certain point; this
suppression will harm China's business and information technology, and
retard the development of the nation's economy.
"The Internet is a double-edged sword. With proper use, authorities can
push society to greater prosperity and civilization. At the same time,
information flow will promote democracy in China and destroy the Chinese
Communist Party's totalitarianism," said Huang.
clear policy in China and the technology to control the Internet is
maturing quickly. Freedom of speech on the Internet in China will still
be heavily suppressed for a while. However, in the long run, surging
Internet information will crash China's "Internet Berlin Wall."
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