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Originally Posted by CDAT
My gut says China, trying to keep it politically neutral I think that most western governments feel that they need China to make the cheap stuff that we the citizens buy. So they feel that they can not come down as hard and/or public on China as they can Russia who most of the western world does not need as much. So when China does something and is not called on it (publicly or privately) it makes them bolder.
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I think the US was going to come down hard on China a few years ago but then Edward Snowden came along and revealed all to the world about what the US was getting up too. The irony of it all is that the US is the biggest player in cyber warfare.
The US and its major Western allies do not discriminate who they target and I don't think there is any country or organisation in the world that they cannot keep tabs on.
The US and major allies such as Britain operate a global electronic surveillance system that can monitor radio, satellite, telephone, fibre-optic cables, microwave, cellular, internet and banking and financial transactions. The NSA and Britain's GCHQ also run a mass tapping operation of submarine fibre-optic cables which carry 90% of international telephone and internet traffic including all social media networks through intercept probes that have been attached to hundreds of fibre-optic cables.
ECHELON:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Five Eyes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
And then there is the Equation Group, the big Dady of cyberwarfare that is believed to be run by the NSA (likely with British and Israeli assistance) that has been the inventor of more and the most sophisticated and untraceable spyware and malware ever created, and that is only what is known about its activities.
http://observer.com/2015/02/equation-group/