Subtle. I'm sure that many Chinese Internet users are saying: "thank you for shutting off access to this website I want to access, and providing me with this useful and interesting information, in a totally non-patronizing way".
Worse, as stated in the article, is that the message is in English, which many people won't even be able to read.
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#12Damn, they couldn't spend a few minutes to look up Chinese language information?
Seriously, almost 500 sites hacked and they didn't do it in a language their users would be able to read. Massive waste.
I doubt most people operating under the Anonymous banner are all that different than the general population and just don't give a damn about what happens in China, or anywhere outside their back yard for that matter. But lulz, that's just awesome.
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#14It's not surprising to see a dozen Chinese government websites were on top of the list at Pastebin. In fact, 90% of the sites whose webmasters were not security-aware: pirated Windows with IIS installed a few crappy ASP pages slapped together. Despite their "righteous" self-claim, hacking those amateur sites are really uncalled for and they are still a bunch of criminals no different. It will NOT change the fact that…