Behind the "Chinese hacker Threat Theory"

The "Chinese hacker Threat Theory" is again rife. The New York Times said January 30 that newspaper computers continued to be attacked by Chinese hackers. The next day, the Wall Street Journal's publisher, Dow Jones, also called it "shot." The Washington Post also joined the chorus this month 2nd, saying a 2011-year cyber attack could have been done by Chinese hackers. Is it true, as some media in the United States say?

Evers, Global PR director of the famous US computer software security company McAfee, said that China's "zombie computer" (a virus-infected computer controlled by hackers) is more than any other country in the world, accounting for 12% of the world's computers. Internet Security Company Symantec Inc. also reported that the United States is the base of hackers, and China is the biggest victim.

In the first half of last year, about 7.8 million computers were attacked by 27,900 IP addresses from other countries, mainly from the United States, according to data from China's National computer network Emergency Technology processing Coordination Center.

As long as people with a little common sense of cyber security know that it is not tenable to judge the location of the hacker only according to the source of the hacker attack. So while the survey shows that China's cyber attacks are mainly from the US, China has not made simple inferences and hasty conclusions about the source of the attack, nor has it been prone to attacking the United States because of its own attacks.

In recent years, "China threat" in Europe and the United States has been split into different subprojects, from the "military threat", "energy threat", "environmental threat", "spy threat", to today's "hacker threat", and so on. This and some western people worry about China's economic and technological strength will affect their interests, in this case, just more need the media objective and impartial, correct guidance of public opinion. Notably, in the U.S. media to render the "Chinese hacker threat" in the mouth, the U.S. President Barack Obama may be more authority to implement a "pre-emptive" network attacks, defense plan to the network of technicians to be expanded 5 times times the news. At such a time, some people in the United States to exaggerate China's cyber threats, let people have to wonder whether this is the United States to defend their own rights, or the expansion of "Cyber army" before the deliberate build-up? Is it safeguarding the security of the cyber world, or making excuses for defrauding congressional appropriations and popular support? The United States as the Internet technology in the forefront of the network of Great Powers, Is it possible to look at itself, to be open and constructive, to strengthen global cooperation in strengthening cyber security, rather than to speculate on the "Chinese hacker Threat theory"?