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China-US 'cyberwar' breakouts
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FOR the past week, Chinese hackers have lashed out in political protest over the death of pilot Wang Wei in an international spy plane collision and the defacing of Chinese Web servers by US hackers.
Frankie Zie, technical director of Shenzhen-based Internet security firm, said: "This is not the first time a hacking war has happened between the US and China, but this is definitely the largest."
Mr Zie was one of the hackers involved in the attack following the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia two years ago.
"Following the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, there was a hacking war, too, and it was the Chinese who initiated it. This time, it is the other way around," he said.
However, "the hackers with the real skills are not in this thing at all", he said.
"It's a matter of principle. A real hacker does not go around destroying things. He will discover a problem and help people solve it. And he will not bring politics into it, or use it as a pretext for hacking activities. Even if a hacker really does something, he will not declare it."
"From what I know, there are about 500 to 600 Web sites in China, and more than 1,000 Web sites in the US defaced, but there is no way to ascertain the numbers," he said.
Some moves by Chinese hackers could be tracked on public sites, including an attack on www.whitehouse.gov. (SD-Agencies)
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