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randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•China is building a cyber army of hackers, report findsEnglish10·2 months agoThat’s an absurdly bad take to justify whataboutism.
randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•China is building a cyber army of hackers, report findsEnglish73·2 months agowhen the USA does the same shit, if not worse, and just as blatantly, no one cares.
This is outright false. Just the most recent post in this community is about the NSA spying on air-gapped networks. And there is an awful lot more news on Lemmy criticizing the US, EU, or other Western democracies. (However, there’s no whataboutism in these cases. Why?)
randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•China is building a cyber army of hackers, report findsEnglish144·2 months agoAs I asked already in this thread: Why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don’t understand that.
That’s whataboutery back and forth.
randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•China is building a cyber army of hackers, report findsEnglish11·2 months ago… criticised the practice of sharing vulnerability discoveries internationally, arguing that such strategic assets should stay within China.
A 2018 rule mandates participants of the Tianfu Cup to hand over their findings to the government, instead of the tech companies.
Which countries do have something similar to a ‘Tianfu Cup?’
randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•China is building a cyber army of hackers, report findsEnglish145·2 months agoNot that I think wiretapping is a good thing (it’s very bad, no matter who does it), but why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don’t understand that. US wiretapping doesn’t make this Chinese policy better.
[Edit to correct a typo.]
'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say