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by nedwin·11y ago·view on hn ↗
We hear a lot about Chinese attacks on the US but virtually nothing about the opposite, which undoubtably does happen.

Reading the wiki page on "Cyberwarfare" there are sections on each country, like "Cyberwarfare in Germany", "Cyberwarfare in India" etc.

Both the "Cyberwarfare in USA" and Cyberwarfare in China" are about Chinese attacks on the US...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare

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All the English-language mainstream media outlets have a broadly pro-Western slant so it's not unusual that they present the viewpoints of their allies, playing up attacks against the West and downplaying or simply not reporting Western nations attacks against their "enemies". Stuxnet was one exception and the US government admitted, IIRC, that it and Israel had developed it and deployed it against Iranian targets. But generally it's only widely reported when the "bad guys" ostensibly attack the "good guys" and no verifiable evidence is provided and we only have official government sources' word to go on. It is a given, I think, that governments spy on each other and strategically launch attacks on each other's networks and databases. However, after the Snowden revelations the US/UK and their allies lost the (bogus) moral high ground when it was revealed they do the same covert attacks that were blamed on China, Russia etc. Only the really naïve were surprised by this. The mass surveillance of their own citizens is a different matter.

Bruce Schneier's latest book 'Data and Goliath' examines the implications of mass surveillance in a calm, levelheaded manner. He also outlines detailed, and realistic, solutions that recognize the benefits of data- mining and covert surveillance while reining in the excessively secret bulk data collection practices of state intelligence agencies and the bulk data-mining practiced by corporations like Google and Facebook.

I presume you would need to search the web in chinese, not in english, to read about those.
That's too bad. Theoretically, we have english-language journalistic institutions doing that for us.
They generally toe the official government line, at least the mainstream media does. The opinion pages contain the odd piece here and there that deviates from this narrow perspective. But don't rely on the English-language (or any language) media to present an unbiased viewpoint that gives equal weight to both sides of an argument when it involves the US or an ally/client state and an "enemy" state like China or Iran.
You think Snowden, GG, wikileaks, etc toe the government line?
I think he means CNN, Fox, MSN, NBC, NPR, etc.

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/133736

(From the State Department to the CEO of SONY.)

No...lol I mean the mainstream media toe the government line. @themeekforgotpw has it right.