So the plan is to hide and not to disclose the problematic companies, and then blame everything on China... Absurd.
Given this market, anyone developing high-security solutions has to loose money on them constantly or charge exorbitant prices to recover their investment. Pretty much only Defense and regulated sectors will buy those. So, the number of high-security products goes down or stays minimum while easily-hacked garbage grows in number. That's all people see to the point that many buyers don't even know something better is possible. Situation keeps reenforcing itself with the buyers all getting what they're paying for or not guarding against.
So, I blame them as much as the attackers if not more than the attackers when it's the same preventable stuff happening. Especially the times it didn't cost extra or what they bought cost more than secure stuff.
Which ones? Are any open-source?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731514
Not open source given only proprietary sector made high-assurance security most of the time. There are some groups that open-sourced stuff after the fact. One whose methods some might emulate is Muen separation kernel. They use SPARK Ada to prove it can't have all kinds of problems. It's also smaller than most things like it.
Perhaps a more apt analogy would be your house is burgled while you are away, do the authorities have an obligation to tell everyone in the neighborhood or just you?
And that wasn't even the comparable situation. From the article it looks like IBM was continually responding to an evolving attack and very deep and extensive penetration.
Maybe, possible, at worst, IBM was arguably negligent here but it's still Chinas fault the situation occured.
All while working behind the scenes trying to make a Chinese controlled Google (Dragonfly) for China, complete with the censorship tools that any government that wants to control its people would love? Several large American companies seem to be chomping at the bit to do these types of projects and help repressive governments in order to profit, until the light of truth gets shown on them... Or were you referring to the time when they were already in China and pulled out over censorship issues?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...
I'm not even sure why China needs google, they've already stolen the source code years ago. Maybe they're after updates to the algorithms.
> In a blog post, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said hackers stole the source code that powers Google’s vaunted search engine and also targeted the e-mail accounts of activists critical of China’s human rights abuses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chine...
The focus on Google's dragonfly is strange because it never came to fruition, yet other major tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon are already operating in China and currently giving similar concessions to the Chinese government.
Sure, no action is ever representative of an entire company - there are always exceptions, but in this case, the CEO and other senior leadership were both behind the project AND behind hiding it from others - you can't paint it as a rogue operation from "one APAC director".
Just because it's a part of their "brand" doesn't mean they "are" that thing. Caveat surfor.
Look to what happen to ZTE when US threw sanctions at them.
Give it 5 years. See if Google are just waiting for things to "cool down" before going back at it.
So yea, already happened, will probably happen again.
Influencing elections and referendums, assassinating people abroad, hostile acquisition of parts of a country, widespread cheating at sport, assassinating opposition members etc.
That is no way limited to Russia.
And Russia is far more aggressive than other country. Even today we had Putin telling UK's government in a press conference to respect Brexit which directly helps Russia by weakening the EU/NATO.
Or the methods used so others can try to protect themselves.
Call it what you want but, even with a lot of grey in between, these things are real and material.
That said, I suggest the number of stories appearing in the press as of late might be part of a steady leak of information from US authorities as part of their strategy to put pressure on China during trade negotiations.
How will others know I'm intellectually superior to them, unless I express some edgy contrarian view?!
edit: I was responding to "harvesting their organs when they die in incarceration" -- this sounds like it's a natural death.
> For many years, it has been known that China uses execution vans, kind of like specially outfitted ambulances, to more efficiently carry out its exceedingly large number of executions. The method of killing in these vans is lethal injection, which has been slowly but surely replacing the firing squad as China’s preferred means of execution, and both lethal injection and the vans are believed to facilitate the widespread practice of harvesting organs of the executed prisoners, an unbelievably appalling practice.
China is making strategic practices of lying and cheating on every level, from small biz to strategic military issues, and they are vertically integrating all of it.
At the small biz level, it is well known among anyone that if you let any IP visible to a Chinese partner, you should have the full expectation that it will be in your competitor's hands within hours, and you can expect to see your products being sold out the back door.
At the larger biz level, it is a standard practice to demand that key IP is turned over to required Chinese 'partners' as a condition of doing business in the country.
Backdoors have been engineered into both consumer and military hardware.
China has been hacking everything from the US Office of Personnel Mgt (stealing info on every USG employee, including highly classified info on intel agents, & info on everyone that could be used to compromise them), to major and minor companies, to private citizens.
China is continually and as a matter of policy expanding into and encroaching upon its neighbors from Tibet in the 1950s to the '9-dashed-line' in pacific waters today.
I know many perfectly honorable Chinese people, and there are probably more of them than the entire population of the US. But, to regard official or business China as anything better than anything but a thief who will stab you in the back at the first opportunity is to be a fool.
We in the west thought that we were exploiting China's cheap labor. Meanwhile, China was exploiting our myopic weakness for short term profits to seek massive strategic business and military advantage. This will go down in history as one of the greatest geopolitical blunders of all time.
Aanyway for the money we all go.