You may recall that when that Hong Kong daily interviewed Edward Snowden on Wednesday he divulged claim about U.S. hacking of computers there and elsewhere in China--even showed them some documents. But they did not reveal details then,while promising to do so soon. Now
they have today. This will only spark more debate and controversy and rumors over what Snowden's up and China's reaction. Here's excerpt:
The detailed records - which cannot be independently verified - show
specific dates and the IP addresses of computers in Hong Kong and on the
mainland hacked by the National Security Agency over a four-year
period.
They also include information indicating whether an attack on a
computer was ongoing or had been completed, along with an amount of
additional operational information.
The small sample data suggests secret and illegal NSA attacks on Hong
Kong computers had a success rate of more than 75 per cent, according
to the documents. The information only pertains to attacks on civilian
computers with no reference to Chinese military operations, Snowden
said.
"I don't know what specific information they were looking for on
these machines, only that using technical exploits to gain unauthorised
access to civilian machines is a violation of law. It's ethically
dubious," Snowden said in the interview on Wednesday.
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