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tadair9198 months, 3 weeks ago

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holy shyte!

"Through trial and error, the researchers learned to use the system’s Chinese-language “dashboard” — a control panel reachable with a standard Web browser — by which one could manipulate the more than 1,200 computers worldwide that had by then been infected."

"For example, they said, after an e-mail invitation was sent by the Dalai Lama’s office to a foreign diplomat, the Chinese government made a call to the diplomat discouraging a visit."

"They found that three of the four control servers were in different provinces in China — Hainan, Guangdong and Sichuan — while the fourth was discovered to be at a Web-hosting company based in Southern California."

if this is what hackers can do. imagine what our government is already doing.

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  Bacalao8 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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  "if this is what hackers can do. imagine what our government is already doing."
  
  or a foreign nation as is implied by this article.
  
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  Dionys8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  "if this is what hackers can do. imagine what our government is already doing."
  
  If you thought ANY of your data touching the internet was safe, you haven't been paying attention the past quarter of a century.
  
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