> The threat actor—whom we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group—manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration into roughly thirty global targets and succeeded in a small number of cases.
So why do we never hear of US sponsored hackers attacking foreign businesses? Or Swedish cyber criminals? Does it never happen? Are “Chinese” hackers just the only ones getting the blame?
I don't think many other countries have that combination of "don't care if others know" approach and level of state sponsorships. China really seems to do some spray and pray attacking private companies too. Same for Russia and NK. Compared to that, for example the "equation group" from the US seems really restrained and targeted.
If the US groups for example started doing ransomware at scale in China, we'd know about that really soon from the news.
The US government has hacked things in China. That you have not heard of something is not evidence that it doesn't exist.
North Korea also does plenty of hacking around the world. That's how they get a significant portion of their government budget, and they rely on cryptocurrency to support that situation.
Ukraine and Russia are doing lots of official and vigilante hacking right now.
Back in the mid 2000s, there was a guy who called himself "the jester" who was vaguely right wing and spent his time hacking ISIS stuff. My college interviewed him.
What's the point of arguing like this? You're asking for experiences from people, then when people give you proper answers it glides off with "well no one I know plays those anyways". Isn't the discussion larger than your personal and private experiences, if you're discussing in public like this?
You seemed to have some initial claim that "all games actually work perfectly fine, prove me wrong" but then you don't seem to actually want to engage faithfully anyways.
HN wasn't letting me comment, then I forgot about this. I wasnt trying to be hostile, I didnt think about the comment coming off that when when I wrote it. I feel you were far to quick to assume bad faith, but either way I apologize that my comment came off as argumentative.
I certainly never said nobody plays those games. I was just responding to their statement about not playing the games your friends are playing.
It is not a DRM problem, you can run many EA games on Linux with no problems, it is an anti cheat problem, which can not be solved by Valve, it has to be done by EA.
Valve making more devices to propogate Steam is a good thing. If they achieve critical mass, EA will then be pressured to implement a compatible solution.
Sure, it doesn't matter to the customer. But it matters if the problem is going to be solved.
Valve can not solve it. The only way it can be solved is if game studios create anti cheat software, which are effective and can be used within a Linux environment. This will only happen if companies see a profit motive to do this, which will happen if the market is large enough.
Well that’s one of the big reasons why PC gaming on Windows will remain dominant for a very very long time and Linux-based PCs for gaming will always remain behind.
Majority of gamers really don’t care about indie games. (unless they are exceptional)
This is often misunderstood and varies by jurisdiction. Often called "squatter's rights", it is often thought to mean "if I use this land for a long time without anybody noticing it becomes mine", but e.g. in my jurisdiction, you also have to have prove that you didn't know it wasn't yours. For example, if your backyard fence has been 5 feet over the property line for 10 years and nobody noticed, but then suddenly your next door neighbor has the property surveyed and tells you to move your back fence, you can take them to court and potentially claim that extra 5 feet as your own. But you can't just scoot your back fence over a couple inches every year and then eventually lay claim to your neighbor's backyard because they didn't notice it was shrinking, nor can you "find" "abandoned" land, build a house on it, and then claim it as your own. I believe there are a few jurisdictions where this actually is the case, but it's fewer than many people believe. And then of course you have the reality of squatters invading people's homes while they are on vacation for a week and the police being completely unwilling to get involved, which I understand was a big problem in France for a while.
