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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by sgustard on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:27PM (#21130217)
As a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:27AM (#21144549)
The supporting link for that figure describes China's hackers army as a myth (in the header), and as a loose coalition of civilians in the body:

>"That revelation, along with a separate story in the Financial Times that a freelancer wrote the Aurora code, is focusing attention on China’s loose web of cowboy hackers. And SharpWinner — the leader of a coalition including anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 civilian members …" //

The rest of the Wikipedia page, amongst other things, describes a structured make up (military, PLA, civilian).

Assuming the numbers were true, how does that compare to USA's, or other countries?

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