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PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure

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churchill ◴[14 Nov 24 01:09 UTC] No.42132087[source]▶
Whenever I see these news & FBI releases about Chinese state-sponsored hackers breaching systems in America, I wonder whether the same thing happens over there: American malware and hacker groups attacking & laying landmines in China's internet infrastructure, although the Chinese may not publicize these exploits because their system opts to maintain an air of invincibility.
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1. talldayo ◴[14 Nov 24 01:20 UTC] No.42132158[source]▶
China has the Great Firewall segregating most international access from the country's network. Additionally, China (moreso than most) has a motivation to onshore as much of their software and hardware manufacturing to bolster their own industry.

It's possible that isolated attacks could pop off now and again, but hacking to-and-from China is strictly state controlled.

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2. nitwit005 ◴[14 Nov 24 01:29 UTC] No.42132204[source]▶
Their censorship infrastructure isn't security. If anything, it's another thing to hack.
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3. petergs ◴[14 Nov 24 01:34 UTC] No.42132230[source]▶
It certainly does happen. See for example under “Targets”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
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4. eru ◴[14 Nov 24 01:54 UTC] No.42132359[source]▶
You say it like it's hard to get around the Great Firewall in either direction.
5. tharkun__ ◴[14 Nov 24 02:15 UTC] No.42132481[source]▶
Now if that naming isn't intentional then I don't know what would be ...

    The Tao or Dao is the natural way of the universe, primarily as conceived in East Asian philosophy and religion. This seeing of life cannot be grasped as a concept. Rather, it is seen through actual living experience of one's everyday being. The concept is represented by the Chinese character 道, which has meanings including 'way', 'path', 'road', and sometimes 'doctrine' or 'principle'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
6. WatchDog ◴[14 Nov 24 03:51 UTC] No.42133007[source]▶
It does have some defensive benefit. Getting legitimate connectivity to work reliably across the Chinese border, is a big pain. Due to this, Chinese commercial internet infrastructure has very few dependencies on international services.

Western infrastructure by comparison is very vulnerable to distribution of connectivity, attacks on deep sea cables can cause a lot of damage.