Chinese hackers get Mongolian on the Great Firewall of China. When they’re not selling `Swords of 1000 Sorrows’ to WoWarcrackheads.
It wasn’t clear if the hacker just went through a proxy server to prove his point, take the reporter’s money, then get back to his gaming.
Mind you, as anyone who has ever been destroyed by a classic Chinese StarCraft zerg rush or a Chinese Counterstrike M4 camper/pixelsniper can attest, the banfa (mad skillz) of Chinese geekdom can reach dizzying heights.
What else would you expect, from a nation of mostly male only children, living in a time of massive social upheaval, urban renewal, with blurred lines between stage-managed and genuine patriotism?
This is such a William Gibson book.
“They are more interested in using skills to access restricted pornography sites than to read about politics”, the earnest reporter says. Well yeah. Porn = watching someone get fucked. Politics = watching someone getting fucked really slowly by ugly old dudes.
With different cultural perspectives and motivators than Western siliconistas, these guys are living in an unstable, ferociously capitalist environment; the bastard child of a vicious cultural revolution and long imperial history, which doesn’t really work any more but people love because it’s all nostalgia and great costumes.
There are huge paradoxes at play that make absolutely no sense to me. Apparently it’s genetic; something I’ll never understand because I’m not Chinese, as many Chinese have told me on many different occasions. The truth is, I don’t think they understand them, either.
(Link found through Virtual China)
