Earlier this week it was revealed that a documentary had been made that proved a Chinese military university was using software to hack dissident groups as well as US entities. The hacking was done using a compromised US-based IP address, which made the situation, and what was supposed to be a documentary bragging about Chinese military intelligence, even more problematic.
In the time since the clip was noticed it’s gotten a lot of press and it seems to have resulted in that documentary being pulled.
As of today the video–”The Internet Storm is Coming” episode of the series called Military Science and Technology–is no longer available in its original location, on the website of Chinese state-run television station, and has been disavowed by Chinese officials as the work of an “imaginative producer”. The video is still available on YouTube for those who would like to see it.
The significance of the clip is, if anything, enhanced by its removal from where it was originally posted. This is of course a catch-22 for the Chinese because if their claims about an imaginative producer are true and the video was pulled for good reason, we’d still be suspicious. That noted, given the episode’s use of a legitimate University of Alabama IP address and that fact the target was set to be a Falun Gong website, it’s unlikely that this purely a work of fiction.
For their part Chinese officials have denied this or any other story of cyberwarfare, while the US Pentagon, Google, and other groups have accused the Chinese government (or associates organizations) of hacking in the past.
The NYT noted t
hat Chinese documents have used fake footage in the past though, including footage from Top Gun as a supposed training exercise. So it’s not impossible that this could be an example of that, though the source material is not as recognizable as the 1986 hit.
via the Washington Post
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