The United States is once again claiming to have been attacked by Chinese hackers. This time, the alleged "victim" is Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In recent years, there have been quite many "victims" that claimed to have been attacked by "Chinese hackers": Google, arms dealers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NASA... In November last year, subordinate departments of the U.S. Congress even issued an annual report saying China has become the Internet world's most threatening country.
However, while the United States kept on "flattering" the "Chinese hackers" in such manner, it always seemed vague on presenting evidence. This time, the New York Times and Dow Jones & Company are still making the accusations based on similar grounds as usual – that the IP address of the attacking source is from China.
People with a little understanding of network knowledge would know that attacks of hackers are transnational and hidden in nature, and therefore the IP address cannot be taken as sufficient evidence to confirm the source of the hackers.
National security has become the U.S.' preferred "fig leaf" to cover the implementation of trade protection and economic sanctions, the ultimate excuse for it to exaggerate the Chinese threat theory on a global scale.
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