Friday, November 30, 2007
Organized Hackers
I think that cyber hactivism is a very scary concept. After watching the video in class and reading " JAPAN: Organized Chinese hackers hit official Japan sites", from The Japan Times it seems to me that this is warfare. In the article, hackers from China attacked Japanese and Taiwanese websites. They did this because of attacks on their websites from Japan and Taiwan. These attacks were carried out by a large number of hackers coming to the websites simultaneously.
" The newspaper Wen Wei Po said groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a
massive attack on more than 200 official Web sites in Japan and Taiwan on
Monday. The attack was scheduled to continue for a week, it said.The daily said the hackers were divided into five groups, each responsible for different tasks."
I'm confused about why attacking websites is so dangerous.
"Dozens of Japanese official Web sites, including the Foreign Ministry, NationalI can understand hacking into secret databases or defense computers but just hacking into websites seems minor. Maybe because the next step could be ruining the economy through computers or maybe I'm just missing something. Hopefully I can gain more insight.
Police Agency, Japan Coast Guard and Defense Agency, and some official Taiwan
Web sites were shut down, the report says."
Labels: China, cyber hacking, Japan, Taiwan
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Hackers With Borders
Traditionally the hacker culture as been seen as an international movement and society. However this is not solely the case. Independent groups in both China and Japan have made attacks on each other in an attempt to disrupt Internet site viewing. On August 7, 2004 the Japan Times reported in their article "Japan: Organized Chinese hackers hit official Japanese Sites" that a group of about 1900 Chinese hackers attacked over 200 official web sites in Japan and Taiwan, in retaliation to Japanese hacker's attack on the China Federation of Defending Diaoyu Islands website. Allegedly they replaced the site with a page containing a Japanese nationalistic expression:
"the Uotsuri Island belongs to Japan"
It is interesting to imagine how these major governments would handle such confrontation. Do these governments support the actions of their private hackers forces? With such bad relations already existing between these countries could this trade of blow escalate to war like scenario?
"the Uotsuri Island belongs to Japan"
It is interesting to imagine how these major governments would handle such confrontation. Do these governments support the actions of their private hackers forces? With such bad relations already existing between these countries could this trade of blow escalate to war like scenario?
Labels: China, Hacker, Japan, Uotsuri Island
