Brinksmanship
This is quite honestly another step up by the Chinese government:
“Xiao Chen” is his online name. Along with his two colleagues, he does not want to reveal his true identity. The three belong to what some Western experts say is a civilian cyber militia in China, launching attacks on government and private Web sites around the world.
It’s in the same area as the missile shootdown that they performed last year, an public escalation of what their known capabilities are. It’s getting hotter.
Edit: Now that I know it’s open source, I can safely say that we’ll find out more about Chinese hacking and infiltration all over the place. Like in that new router you just bought:
Until a source in China tipped off the FBI, no one could tell that the parts were Cisco knockoffs rather than the real thing.
interesting to say the least and causes a few worries to say a little more!