China Accuses U.S. of Cyberwarfare

China Accuses U.S. of Cyberwarfare

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In the wake of a recent speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning countries that censor the internet and engage in hacking, China has lobbed a return volley and accused the United States of hypocrisy and initiating cyberwarfare against Iran.

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It seems that the gloves are off now with China retaliating for previous accusations of internet attacks against Google. This could get very interesting.

I hope there is not going to be an increase in hostilities here, as wars of this type are under reported in my opinion.

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This is ironic : "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning countries that censor the internet " . In light of ...

Post Clinton’s Internet Freedom Speech:US- SourceForge Blocked Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba: Is Open Source Still Open?

Prohibited Persons
You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from receiving services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction, including without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, detailed at www.bis.doc.gov... (or successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post Content to, or access Content available through, SourceForge.net.

As of January 2008, people from those countries can browse SourceForge projects and download from them, but access to the secure server was not allowed, so they would not be able to log in to SourceForge or contribute to projects. As of January 2010, blocking went further with not allowing people coming from “banned locations” to download anything from SourceForge.net, having a response similar to this one: sourceforge.net...
Basically, the case is not totally new. For a long time, people on those countries lived with the fact that companies like Mathworks and Microchip block their sites in their faces, and others like Sun prevent them from downloading their products. However, that has not been a great problem: programmers in Syria are still using Java and PIC microcontrollers, and students in Iran are still doing their research using Matlab; most of the time, using the same techniques and tools that are developed to avoid the raising censorship in many countries around the world.
Sun has blocked people in several countries from accessing its so-claimed open source projects, but users in those countries have reluctantly ignored the situation as they managed their way around, coping with Sun’s own definition of open source. However, the latest incident, SourgeForge.net blockage, has been surprising and disappointing for FOSS people in those countries. SourceForge.net defines itself as “the world’s largest open source software development web site” [2] with the previous link directing to opensource.org, where you can read the following definition [3]:
The Open Source Definition
Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
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5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Sourceforge Blocks Cuba, Sudan, Iran...

reply to post by Gun Totin Gerbil


I see no logical reason to block access like this. You think Iran has to worry about being about not being able to download the latest release of whatever bit of code. Even if they did want it they could get it very easily. So who are they hurting? the normal everyday folk.

Now the U.S.s response (if there is any) will be interesting, If the Chinese are right ( ehm ehm), then what other bits of info are they going to let slip? This could get dirty.

There won't be any kind of response that doesn't contain a copious amount of hypocrisy . There never is , on any subject .