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I like how the whole article is rambling about Chinese hacks yet no strong & clear evidence suggests it's from China, except perhaps from a Chinese IP address.

You know what, Chinese computers are also likely to be hacked easily.

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I agree that the Times can't prove absolutely that the Chinese government was behind the attack. But they do provide a few strong pieces of evidence: (1) the university computers used in this attack were the same machines used in past attacks that were linked to China's military; (2) the attacks coincided directly with policy issues affecting Chinese officials.

The article also had a relatively even-handed tone. It discussed the broader trend of hacks originating in China without linking the trend to the Chinese government, and it included an eloquent rebuttal quote from a Chinese official.

the two evidence from NYT made a meme in Chinese Interwebs:

蓝翔 hacked Google.

I've found that's the case with any hack... for all we know it could be a competing newspaper routing through China.

But nationalism/xenophobia trumps reason.

What Chinese newspaper competes with the New York Times, in any meaningful sense? Given that media inside China is heavily censored, and Chinese newspapers publish in a language the vast majority of the US cannot read?

I was implying it could be an American newspaper... As it stands if I 'hacked' HN and routed through china, I reckon the news would be: "HN hacked by Chinese Government!"

It makes this sound more like a casualty of war, and less like an embarrassing mistake.

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