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Hey Shanghai, what's the feeling on the ground about Mandiant's APT1 report from yesterday?

http://www.mandiant.com/apt1

My personal opinion on it is the following:

1. What's the news here? Isn't every nation on earth doing it, or trying to do it?

2. Western nations would be ill-advised to not buckle up and take online warfare seriously. The police in particular should be way better prepared.

Overall, I think it's fun to expose it, but beyond reporting I fail to see what the value is.

Exactly. Moreover, every nation is also denying it. Some reports make fun of China because they deny something that seem obvious, but this is no China specialty.

Just another aspect of anti China sentiment, that's all.

I think what people seem to be saying is that China is one of the only countries so blatantly using it for economic espionage against private corporations. This is fundamentally different than what other countries are rumored to be doing.

Awesome! Great to see such kind of event happening in Shanghai :D

There is a good little community here in Shanghai, including these upcoming meetups on Meta Programming and AngularJS:

http://www.meetup.com/Shanghai-Agile-Scrum-User-Group/events... http://www.meetup.com/Shanghai-Agile-Scrum-User-Group/events...

We've been having these every month for the past year and a half. We're also having a JS meetup (node.js, marionette.js...) this Saturday: http://shanghaios.org

Anyone interested in a Beijing meetup?

We'd be interested in throwing one next month when we're in town.

Yes

Yep. I was about to suggest the same.

Anybody in Hong Kong?

Yes

Wonder if Unit 61398 will have anybody there...

Hmmm... if I get the time I may pop by.

Kunming? :)

Sounds optimistic! Is there much of a startup scene in Kunming?

Not bad for the size. Less tech-oriented, lots of F&B/tourism, some arts/creative media, NGOs.

Interesting, maybe you should put an email in your about so ppl can contact you next time they're in Kunming :)

I live in Bangkok.

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