A Very Civil War
Is China conducting a silent electronic war with the US? Sure, says Danny Bradbury – but so is everyone else
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t was only there for a split second. It appeared by surprise, in a video on China’s state-sponsored China Central
Television last August. Viewers saw an image of a computer screen, with a list of websites associated with the outlawed Falun Gong group. One of them included the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Underneath was a button saying ‘attack’. China’s cyber attack capabilities have been long suspected, but hard to prove.
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Small snippets like the video (which was subsequently yanked from the internet by the Chinese) all lend credence to claims that China is engaged in a form of low-level warfare with the US, and others in the West.
Spies Like These
China has been openly accused of mounting cyberwarfare campaigns on various occasions. Most recently, a report authored for the US House Committee on Foreign
Affairs by Northrop Grumman suggested coordinated activity between the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Third Department (which monitors foreign telecommunications) and Fourth Department (responsible for electronic countermeasures). The groups are structured to systematically penetrate computer systems, said Dr. Larry M. Wortzel, commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, in testimony.
May/June 2012
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