Talk:Honker Union

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This entry is not written in english or anything that even remotely resembles english. To the extent I can comprehend the intended meaning, I have "fixed" the sentences so that they have content in the english language.Cokerwr 18:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

conspiracy theory
"Given the current political situation in China, it is relatively certain that Honker activities are monitored, directed and in some cases even micromanaged by the central government."

Cokerwr's own intrepretation is against the common thought about hactivitism developed in China in recent years. Hactivisim is regarded as a part of Weiquan Movement (維權運動) which is uncontrolled by the government. A few days ago, another Weichuan Movement 'poster boy' has even been prohibited from going aboard. As Wiki is not a place for showing up conspiracy theory as well as wrong interpretation, the sentence is removed. I think Cokerwr had better edit the writing style of this entry, rather than adding personal intrepretation on a topic that he is not faimilar with. --Yau 13:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hong Kong and SQL Slammer
I removed the following paragraph from the article:

''The name Honker has been misunderstood as indicating a relation of some kind with Hong Kong. In January 2003, the "worm" SQL Slammer appeared in the Internet. As proof of concept exploit code for the SQL Server bug utilised by SQL Slammer, written by David Litchfield, was found in the Honker Union website, it was speculated that the worm was spread by Honkers. The Associated Press misstated that Honker might be a Hong Kong hacking group, possibly due to their similar names. Though it was a mistake, Hong Kong since then has been falsely connected to Honkers in many other documents. I''

I removed it because the use of the word "Honkers" to mean Hong Kong predates the SQL Slammer worm. It is in fact Australian slang which has been around for years - I first heard it on Neighbours a long time ago. See here for a usage on someone's blog from 2002 - before Slammer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by A bit iffy (talk • contribs) 13:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC).


 * I have reinstated the paragraph while rephrasing it to acknowledge that Honker already had the meaning of Hongkonger. --Voidvector (talk) 04:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Study of the group by Gregory Walton, the editor of the Infowar Monitor
I feel that given the amount of creditbility IWM has been enjoying after the discovery of GhostNet, this study of the group should be included to describe the relationship between Beijing and Honker. Jim101 (talk) 15:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Source requried for this article.
The dark visitor : inside the world of Chinese hackers by Scott J Henderson looks like to be the authoritative book on Chinese hacker underground and the Honker Union. It has been quoted by everyone who is studying Chinese cyber attack by my impression. We need this book to improve this article. Jim101 (talk) 16:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikileaks cable reveals direct link with Chinese govt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/04/wikileaks-cables-china-cyber-warfare —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.198.236.194 (talk) 14:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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