The same is true here.
>While penalties for "hacking" (why can't anyone use the appropriate
>term, cracking?), have become more severe in China, unfortunately
>those outside the jurisdiction of China's laws have nothing to worry
>about because the Chinese government is not working with other
>governments to pursue these people.
It is also plausible that the things done by China-based crackers
may further the socio-political and economic aims of the Chinese
government, whether or not these crackers are actually sponsored
choose China.
While penalties for "hacking" (why can't anyone use the appropriate
term, cracking?), have become more severe in China, unfortunately
those outside the jurisdiction of China's laws have nothing to worry
about because the Chinese government is not working with other
governments to pursue these people.
The bottom line is that if Antartica's network was flooding my
networks with malware, viruses, attacks, etc., I'd block them too. Now
maybe that makes me racist against Penguins, birds, whales and seal,
