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A Vocational School For Chinese Hackers — And Tractor Drivers

When the New York Times reported yesterday that Chinese hackers had been attacking its computer system for months, one social media user in China asked, “Another glorious feat of Lanxiang Vocational School?” While Lanxiang was not mentioned in the Times‘ January 30 report, a New York Times article from 2010 named Lanxiang as one of two Chinese [...]

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Chinese Web Users Gasp — In Code — As NYT Cyber Attacks Exposed

This article also appears on The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. After the New York Times published an article detailing the four months during which the venerated publication was the subject of hacking attacks traced to China, the news spread on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. Despite internal censorship measures and the blocking of [...]

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