A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese
military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been
an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a
computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in
cyberwarfare against entities in the United States...
The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the
documentary for six seconds—between 11:04 and 11:10 minutes—showing
custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack
against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using
a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university. As of
Aug. 22 at 1:30pm EDT, in addition to Youtube, the whole documentary is
available on the CCTV website.
The screenshots show the name of the software and
the Chinese university that built it, the Electrical Engineering
University of China's People's Liberation Army—direct evidence that the
PLA is involved in coding cyber-attack software directed against a
Chinese dissident group.
