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'Hacked by China? Hack them back!' rages US Congress report

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Oh, this can get quite funny indeed. Imagine I'm a non-Chinese foreign power, let's say Russia or something in the Axes of Evil. Or were they buried? Oh no, it was axis, sorry - can't keep up. Er, where was I?

Ah, yes. Imagine I'm a foreign power and it's late Friday and I'm bored so I want to have some fun. All I need to do is either use some Chinese proxies or even spoof Chinese IP addresses if I don't need the return traffic for, for instance a DDoS and zap enough for that retaliation to flood out from the US. I could be creative and dig up some IP addresses of Chinese government sites to use, just to add to the fun. Once I've triggered retaliation I can sit back with some popcorn and watch the show until it's locally beer o'clock.

There is a reason retaliation is ALWAYS a bad idea - it's easy to be goaded into harming innocents.

Ah, sorry. Now I remember. That's apparently never a problem as long as you call that "collateral damage", my bad. Carry on then.

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