China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study

Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by xufi on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:46AM (#11735937)

With China you're never sure. Look at what happened with the OPM hack they did on the US government database of federal workers

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Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by Kristine1975 on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:50AM (#11735956)

Just because the hack originated in China doesn't mean the Chinese government was behind it.

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Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by sievebrain on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:12AM (#11737466)

Are you trying to imply that for profit commercial hackers would care about draining the OPM?

There's really only one type of organisation that could use that data: a government.

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Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by xufi on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:55AM (#11738288)

Pretty much my point.

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Re:China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study by xufi on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:17AM (#11736041)

I wasn't referring to the Chinese govt per se. But just the many entities of cyber criminals that these hackers originate from also

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