Comments on: PRC Gov Responses to Hacking Allegations – Timeline

By: jumper

jumper — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:16:11 +0000

Just made a new post about it. Interesting development. It would be nice if there was more than an IP address to go on though.

By: gao yulong

gao yulong — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:38:03 +0000

The New York Times reported that the attacks have been traced to computers at China’s Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School. Any insights to this recent story in the “Times”?
Found here: Google Probe Studies Role of China Schools
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575074703728470246.html

By: gao yulong

gao yulong — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:02:34 +0000

When time permits gives your read on event at ….DC
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inside………busy, busy, busy

By: jumper

jumper — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:16 +0000

@gao_yulong I was at shmoocon over the weekend and didn’t get a chance to post anything about it. I’ll get back on the ball soon.

By: gao yulong

gao yulong — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:43:19 +0000

Any thoughts about recent reports:
China says it shut down online academy for hackers, found in LA Times……….
Police in Hubei province announced to the Chinese media over the weekend that they had closed down the operation, which state media said was the largest training site for Chinese hackers, and arrested three of its ringleaders. Black Hawk is accused of collecting more than $1 million in tuition from 12,000 subscribers and 170,000 others who took its online courses, according to Chinese media.
by Barbara Demick ?????

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By: Chas

Chas — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:14 +0000

The “China Code” claim is questonable IMHO:

- The Register found the 4-bit CRC algorithm in a 1988 Novell programming book.

- Variable names are stripped out during compile. Google “crc_ta[16]” gets bunch Chinese sites, but google “crc_table[16]” turns up code snippet outside China.

- The code in the Chinese whitepaper doesn’t even match Aurora. Aurora machine contains a 12-bit shift optimization (found as early as 1988 according to The Register article):

crc16 >> 12

however the code passed around on Chinese sites is unoptimized code using two divisions:

((uchar)(crc/256))/16

Details people, details.

By: CBRP1R8

CBRP1R8 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:34:06 +0000

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/08/china.hackers/index.html

its fm cnn so take it w/ a grain of salt to the validity…but its another datapoint

By: Tom - 大肚腩

Tom - 大肚腩 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:07:03 +0000

Strange how doesnt_matter floats conspiracy theories about tweets being the work of some .gov program, yet turns around and accepts on blind faith that baidu was actually hacked by the Iranian Green Army, because somebody redirected via DNS baidu to some site that hosted the same image that was used during the Twitter hack.

For all I know baidu redirected their DNS temporarily on behalf of the CCP to some site they set up with a screen cap of the twitter hack in order to support claims by the CCP that they are the objects of hacks too.

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