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The Chinese government recently announced that it is leading the world in upgrading its wired infrastructure, and security analysts warn that the new Internet Protocol Version 6 will only increase the danger. Beijing‘ state hacking operations.

HanXia, Chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technologies, on October 11 Chinese The number of addresses implemented for the new protocol, called IPv6, ranks first in the world, state media reported. Internet communication protocols are used to identify and locate computers and networks and route traffic across the global network. The new IPv6 will better support the emerging IoT.

“What does this mean: Prepare for cyberattacks Chinese “A cybersecurity analyst who wants to remain anonymous to protect her privacy is bigger, harder to block and harder to track.”

Currently, it is a widely used security tool to look for IP addresses behind malicious cyber activity and then block them. With the new IPv6, Chinese government-backed hackers can change IP addresses when blocked, with the help of government-owned telecommunications providers.

While IPv6 is still in development and has some security vulnerabilities, it replaces the existing IPv4 standard in the global internet infrastructure.

“Vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit are still being fixed, and the Chinese are certainly aware of that,” the security expert said.

One flaw is that IPv6 Internet traffic is “tunneled” over IPv4 networks. The app provides cyber attackers with an easy hole to break into computer networks.

The new protocol comes with one big difference: a much larger number of internet addresses.

Currently, network administrators use address blocking tools to prevent hackers from breaking into networks under the current protocol.

Once a hacker is detected, the address is blocked and it is difficult to continue attacking with a new IPv4 address at the moment. This is because the 4.3 billion IP addresses available under IPv4 are relatively few, exhausted, and in high demand, even for government-sponsored hacking groups such as those using a government-sponsored telecommunications firm. China Unicom.

But the new IPv6 comes with 340 undecillion IP addresses – that’s 340 trillion trillion trillion.

“This is actually a good thing in mature, secure networks controlled by bona fide actors. But on networks controlled by it is a bad thing. Chinese‘ said the security expert.

The IP address bonanza generated by the new protocol will be a boon for government hackers as military and intelligence teams conducting cyber attacks can use as many addresses as needed for attacks. So, when Microsoft or another software leader adds a hacker’s address to a global blacklist, government-sponsored groups will be moved to a new address provided by government-run providers.

This will render security methods used to detect, monitor and block cyberattacks useless against sophisticated Chinese or Russian state cyberattacks.

“The Chinese know this. That’s one of the reasons why they’re pushing so hard to put the whole country on IPv6 only,” said the expert.

Chinese‘s IPv6 infrastructure will also increase local surveillance of Chinese citizens. With the introduction of IPv6, spying will become easier and more targeted.

Currently, IPv4 requires a single household to share an internet address. Under IPv6, government surveillance will be able to distinguish between individual devices (handhelds, laptops and tablets) connected to the internet in a single home.

With so many addresses available, each device can be given its own address and one of the main methods currently used to stop cyber attacks will disappear.

As governments try to control populations, new methods for intrusive surveillance will emerge.

Chinese It is considered one of the world’s most wired surveillance states, conducting large-scale internal espionage operations against its citizens.

For the US, there are concerns among security analysts that the Russian government has shared a list of 16 critical US infrastructures. President Biden gave in russian President Vladimir Putin At the June summit to warn Moscow against targeting infrastructures.

Critics say providing such a list to the Russians — and possibly the Chinese — would provide foreign military hackers with a blueprint for how to electronically take down the United States in a future conflict.

ChineseProblem Communist Party

Former State Department policy planner Mil Yu The problem facing the USA Chinese simple: it is the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

“What should Americans do about communists today? Chinese? Tell the truth. Always,” born Mr. Yu, Chinesesaid in a speech on Sunday in San Jose.

Worsening USA-Chinese Mr. Yu argued that the relations were not the fault of the Trump administration or the anti-communist conservatives.

“The Chinese Communist Party is the problem. “His ideological hostility towards the United States is rooted in a fundamental hostility towards freedom, particularly the freedom of the Chinese people,” he said. Mike Pompeo during the Trump administration.

Chinese propaganda organs constantly Beijing It stems from America’s Cold War rhetoric and thinking.

But Mr. Yu says, ChineseThe ruling Communist Party, which is trying to build its foreign policy on an epic Cold War conditional “struggle” between the two political and ideological systems.

“The idea of ​​a new ‘Cold War’ is not about US ‘rhetoric’. This has never been US policy,” says Mr. Yu. “Hawks and pigeons come and go in Washington. But the existence of a free United States is seen by the CCP as an existential threat.”

An example can be seen here ChineseConfrontation of American officials in Anchorage, Alaska, in March. Senior diplomat and CCP Politburo member during the meeting Yang Jiechi and former Foreign Minister Wang Yi lecturer foreign minister Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan what they claimed were the evils of capitalist, democratic systems.

The Chinese did not focus on any particular American policy. Instead, their complaints focused on the entire US democratic political system, which they claimed was inferior. ChineseThe Marxist-Leninist system, Mr. Yu said.

“This kind of Cold War rhetoric is just outside the debates between the Soviet General Secretary. Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon “In Moscow in the 1950s,” he said.

Mr. Yu said Americans “blame America first” regarding relations with the United States. Chinese They ignore the fact that the United States is the leading defender of freedom and democracy.

“The most discouraging thing about Anchorage was that America didn’t respond hard enough,” Mr. Yu said. “Maybe because of the ‘wake-up’ politics and culture of cancellation, our own representatives didn’t have the confidence to defend America and freedom-loving people everywhere.”

Mr. Yu said that leaders in the Trump administration have defended the United States above all else and appealed to what is great in the country.

“From Hong Kong to Tibet to Xinjiang, persecuted house churches, Falun Gong practitioners and everywhere in between, we spoke for the Chinese people,” he said.

Mr. Yu said that he has adopted new, tougher policies. Chinese It was not easy, which overturned “a false 50-year-old consensus in Washington that the Chinese Communist Party would embrace democracy if we stepped in at all costs.”

However, the Trump administration has acknowledged the truth and Beijing proxies and guanxi brokers” – a reference ChinesePowerful lobbyists and others trying to influence US politics Beijinggoodness.

The Trump administration opposed this trend and sided with the free world. Chinese. “This was a crowning achievement,” said Mr. Yu.

Mr. Yu, Trump’s policy team Chinese It had an “attitude”, not a policy.

“This is not true,” he said. “We had Chinese Politics with an American attitude based on American values. We had moral clarity, honest speech, confidence, and deep belief in American exceptionalism and the inalienable rights of every human being.”

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