this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
131 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
60809 readers
3707 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Isn’t this like tantamount to a declaration of war?
Not really? Every country is spying on every other country. It’s just a big failure on our end.
If you ain't spyin', you ain't tryin'.
Nah, only because everyone is doing that to everyone else that they can, china is an particular target for the west at large. War declaration would be any attacks on infrastructure and production. Then there's skin in the game and you can't say you were just looking.
Beyond the “the US does it too, non-responses”, it’s very unlikely we have solid proof the group that hacked the state department was directly linked the the Chinese Government. Were they? Probably, but you don’t burn diplomatic bridges on possibilities.