Beijing, February 20: The Chinese military today dismissed as “irresponsible” reports which pointed to its involvement in cyber attacks on Internet search giant Google.
Major General Luo Yuan of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences said that allegations linking the attacks with the Chinese government and military were irresponsible.
“China has on many occasions reiterated that it opposes hackings of any form and such activities are strictly prohibited by law. Its military would not go against the rules,” Luo said.
“People can easily take advantage of a location, they use it as their disguise and divert attention elsewhere, to a supposedly more apparent direction,” he was quoted as saying by the ‘China Daily’.
A New York Times (NYT) report on Thursday linked two Chinese educational institutions – Lanxiang Vocational School based in Jinan in Shandong province and Shanghai Jiaotong University – to the online attacks that also targeted American corporations.
–PTI