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...scale and sophistication of the activities apparently conducted by Tan and his group--and their alleged ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA)--are an insight into China's effort to establish a corps of civilian cyberwarriors. A recent series of intrusions into the systems of Western governments and major corporations was blamed on China (though none of the intrusions have been specifically tied to Tan and his group). This month British media reported that the country's top antiespionage official had sent a letter to 300 major corporations warning that they faced attacks from "Chinese state organizations...
...response to questions from TIME, a faxed letter from China's State Council Information Office said accusations that the PLA was involved in hacker attacks against overseas targets were "groundless, irresponsible and also have ulterior motives." The Chinese police, the letter said, had received no requests from overseas governments asking for investigations of Chinese attacks on their websites. But reports in Chinese newspapers suggest that the establishment of a cybermilitia is well under way. In recent years, for example, the military has engaged in nationwide recruiting campaigns to try to discover the nation's most talented hackers. The campaigns...
...military command, simulating attacks, designing hacking tools and drafting network-infiltration strategies. Tan was then chosen to represent the Sichuan Military Command in competition with other provinces. His team won again, after which, the iDefense reports say, he founded the NCPH and acquired an unidentified benefactor ("most likely the PLA") to subsidize the group's activities to the tune of $271 a month...
...much trial and error. Everything keeps changing. Treatment has changed, and the way people look at treatment has changed. And caught up in between are everyone's individual lives. We all have so much to learn from one another, and I don't think that there is a master pla n or treatment that will work for everyone...
...August, China began replacing the armed police who used to guard the border with People's Liberation Army soldiers, presumably to stem the influx of North Koreans. Locals say the armed police, some of whom are ethnic-Korean Jilin natives, were easy for refugees to bribe; the PLA will probably be far less easily bought. Their garrisons were put in place before winter, when most North Koreans take advantage of the iced-over river to reach China. Standing in Ryu's kitchen, filled with pickled cabbage and smoked meat, Kim smiles. "I am very lucky to have gotten here before...