The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming! | TechCrunch

By now you must have heard of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army: “an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around white tower,” claims the New York Times, who were themselves recently owned by the 1337 h4ck3r5 of the 61398. And just recently, there were “extremely sophisticated” attacks on Apple, Facebook, and Twitter! Why, those evil Chinese! We can’t just stand by while this happens! The US government has to -- to -- ...wait just a minute here. I don’t know how the NYT defines “overwhelming”, but those Apple/Facebook/Twitter hacks? Those apparently originated in Eastern Europe, a long, long way away from Shanghai. And Chinese hacking? Old, old news. Why, the NYT reported on it--courtesy of Wikileaks--back in 2010: