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China's cyberattacks of Japan

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.10.18

During September, Japan's telcos came under a vast "cyberattack" involving a distributed denial of service attack.

On the weekend I had a conversation with someone who runs a network operating center for a major Japanese telco. He told me that the telcos have seen a vast denial-of-service attack coming from countless sources inside China. It coincided with the increased tension between China and Japan. It was so bad that their ISP had to block all traffic coming from China, which is how it stayed for the duration of the attack.

Those wacky Chinese script kiddies! Look at all the resources they can bring to bear, and how good they are at avoiding detection and control in notoriously overpoliced China.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov