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This story deserves a “no doy!”
All major world powers are bolstering their cybersecurity. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t survive in such an opportunistic world.
This is not about 'bolstering cybersecurity' but rather about attacking other countries. There is nothing even remotely similar to a 'Tianfu Cup' in any other country.
As I asked already in another 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.
Embedding Trojans in your enemy’s infrastructure and leaving them to be switched on in times of war is ABSOLUTELY defense. You may not like it. But that’s called cyber warfare.
Quick question: Do you fundamentally disagree with what China is accused of but fully support Israel and the US’s extrajudicial backdoors, Trojan horses, domestic spying, pager bomb assasinations, AI targeted air strikes, and other clandestine war crimes just because they are perpetrated by “the good guys”?
nice try derailing the conversation with a "quick question", let's ignore it.
you are correct, it is cyber warfare, and china sees the US as their enemy. however it is not "ABSOLUTELY" defense.
i guess the conventional warfare equivalent would be to place explosives on the territory of your enemy to set it off in case of war. which smells way more like preparing active warfare than some kind of defense.
it brings it's own set of problems as well. let's say they get triggered by accident, either by incompetency or a third conflict party.
it will be very hard to explain why they were there in the first place, and "yes we deployed the <insert 'defensive' measure> on your soil, but it wasn't us who triggered it." might just not cut it.
This is (deploying malware and backdoors outside of wartime, often widely) criticisized very often and rightfully so. By both cybersecurity people and various political leanings, especially leftists.
Your analogy is good. These things are often intended to kill, and are often countervalue (read: target civilians). It is in fact bad no matter what state does it. It however should also come as no surprise that all states variously want to, though for example the usa has historically gone back and forth on how selective they are for many of the reasons you state. Though other reasons include things like not revealing exact capabilities by releasing malware ahead of time to be spotted and studied.
Thanks for your reply, it made some good points. It however didn't need the part starting with "It however..." as phrases like this simply devalue everything that was written before them, and are usually followed by a change of topic.
The topic was the question if deploying trojans in another country's infrastructure counts as an "ABSOLUTELY defensive" measure.
This could have been a perfect sentence to finish with, don't you think? ;)
what a strangely passive aggressive and rude response. if you want a comment written in your voice and chosen thoughts, you are free to do so.