If it doesn't draw blood, its accepted business practice in China. If it does draw blood, it <i>might</i> be accepted business practice.<p>Seriously, I've never seen a place where cheating was so accepted: just about every other taxi ride attempted to take me the "scenic route", almost every business deal ended up with them trying to screw or defraud us.<p>What a nightmare of a place to do business in - never again.
Crackers exist and it is a shame that the western world punishes security research and shifts the blame towards the "hackers" instead of trying to get these vulnerabilities fixed, where they originated.<p>In the coming (or ongoing) cyber-war - who wins? The countries that welcomed crackers or those who jail them?<p>Note: I am not advocating breaking into people's computers. Just a community that welcomes security input.
Oh, too bad. :-(<p>Given the headline, I was hoping for an article on how technically inclined people are not ridiculed as "geeks" or "nerds" in China, but are rather accepted as contributors to key aspects of life in the 21st century. Instead, they're <i>still</i> using "hacking" and "cracking" interchangeably in the New York Times. Apparently we're not as "21 century" as I thought.
Meta: it seems the New York Times really didn't appreciate getting blocked from China a few months ago. All the articles I read on HN that depict China negatively seem to come from the NYT. Or maybe other publications that aren't blocked in China actively avoid those topics?
It seems to me that China is building itself a problem that it might not be able to handle in the future. Sort of like the Romans (or Germans or British or Americans) had / have with all of the soldiers they produce(d).