The CCP appears to have a distorted, irrational, backwards view of how the world really works. In regard to Taiwan, the Nationalist Chinese were a sovereign nation before the Communist Chinese were, so in reality, mainland China is a breakaway province of Taiwan, not the other way around. We should be calling mainland China a "rebellious breakaway province of Taiwan" and name it "West Taiwan".
The rebels in West Taiwan are claiming far more oceanic territory than international law allows in claiming the entire South China Sea. The territorial limits of Chinese waters properly belongs to Taiwan proper, not West Taiwan.
The CCP likes to put out the propaganda that they are a peaceful people who only want to work with everyone rather than dominate everyone, and that is unadulterated bullshit. They make the claim that they have never been expansionist or aggressive (much like the Iranians try to claim for themselves), when history and reality show the lie of that. The communists began their Chinese odyssey with violent conquest - they conquered West Taiwan from it's rightful owner in the very beginning. Since then, they've sent out tentacles feeling for conquest against all of their neighbors, trying to claim lands that are not theirs and never have been. They've had conflict with Russia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Tibet, and now India, too, trying to take territory that does not belong to them. The last time I checked, the CCP was having ongoing "territorial disputes" with at least 21 neighboring countries of which Taiwan is but one.
So fuck 'em.
The idea that spurious "independent "hackers" are working out of West Taiwan without government oversight is laughable. The CCP micromanages it's people down to a ridiculous level. "Hackers" are no different. If someone is hacking out of West Taiwan, it is with government blessings and aid, and probably direction and oversight.
They are correct, however, in the claim that "western" people have tracked hackers right on back to their lairs in West Taiwan. A few years ago, I and a friend (who at the time was working as a US Army Counterintelligence Agent), tracked a couple of shills at ATS back to West Taiwan using their internet footprints. We tracked them back to the very CCP government building where their desks sat.
We outed them publicly, including the branch of CCP Intelligence they were working for and working out of. When we did that, there was no denial, no protestations... there was no response at all. Ever. They simply vanished from the landscape of ATS forever.
The CCP has "hackers", but they're really not very good at what they do when thrown up against professional cyber warriors. Any hacking emanating from West Taiwan is government sanctioned, period, and it's Keystone Cop-ish at best. If US agencies fall prey to it, then it's their own damned fault for not being very good at their job of countering it.
Maybe they should check into hiring some quiet professionals themselves. DO something serious rather than just trying to spook your citizens (especially not vulnerable college kids at Vanderbilt who have no clue as to how the world really is, like Wray did) with how inept you are at securing your own damned infrastructure.
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The rebels in West Taiwan are claiming far more oceanic territory than international law allows in claiming the entire South China Sea. The territorial limits of Chinese waters properly belongs to Taiwan proper, not West Taiwan.
The CCP likes to put out the propaganda that they are a peaceful people who only want to work with everyone rather than dominate everyone, and that is unadulterated bullshit. They make the claim that they have never been expansionist or aggressive (much like the Iranians try to claim for themselves), when history and reality show the lie of that. The communists began their Chinese odyssey with violent conquest - they conquered West Taiwan from it's rightful owner in the very beginning. Since then, they've sent out tentacles feeling for conquest against all of their neighbors, trying to claim lands that are not theirs and never have been. They've had conflict with Russia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Tibet, and now India, too, trying to take territory that does not belong to them. The last time I checked, the CCP was having ongoing "territorial disputes" with at least 21 neighboring countries of which Taiwan is but one.
So fuck 'em.
The idea that spurious "independent "hackers" are working out of West Taiwan without government oversight is laughable. The CCP micromanages it's people down to a ridiculous level. "Hackers" are no different. If someone is hacking out of West Taiwan, it is with government blessings and aid, and probably direction and oversight.
They are correct, however, in the claim that "western" people have tracked hackers right on back to their lairs in West Taiwan. A few years ago, I and a friend (who at the time was working as a US Army Counterintelligence Agent), tracked a couple of shills at ATS back to West Taiwan using their internet footprints. We tracked them back to the very CCP government building where their desks sat.
We outed them publicly, including the branch of CCP Intelligence they were working for and working out of. When we did that, there was no denial, no protestations... there was no response at all. Ever. They simply vanished from the landscape of ATS forever.
The CCP has "hackers", but they're really not very good at what they do when thrown up against professional cyber warriors. Any hacking emanating from West Taiwan is government sanctioned, period, and it's Keystone Cop-ish at best. If US agencies fall prey to it, then it's their own damned fault for not being very good at their job of countering it.
Maybe they should check into hiring some quiet professionals themselves. DO something serious rather than just trying to spook your citizens (especially not vulnerable college kids at Vanderbilt who have no clue as to how the world really is, like Wray did) with how inept you are at securing your own damned infrastructure.
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