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Article: Media Reaction to Hack Attacks Outweighs Real Threat.(chinese computer hackers)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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As wars go, this one was pretty weak. Earlier this month, groups of Chinese hackers were supposed to be launching an all-out attack against American Web sites to protest the April 1 collision between a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. spy plane. Sonic media reports made it sound like the Red Army's thick-glasses division would be retaliating for the death of pilot Wang Wei by sending the Internet itself plummeting into the ocean behind him.
But a week into the so-called conflict, it became clear that cyberwar is far from hell. While it's possible that the United States' critical network infrastructure might someday be threatened by overseas hackers, the most ...