PLA Unit 61398 Recruitment Notice Found
China’s Ministry of National Defense quickly denied charges outlined in a widely circulated report from information security firm Mandiant that exposed a specific unit of the People’s Liberation Army as responsible for hacking against the U.S. and other countries.
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Hey, kudos on the ability to search “61398部队” on Baidu. I wonder why you didn’t meniton the other stuff Baidu returned, like their preschool, educational websites they’re working on. Maybe that explains why they are looking for IT talent.
Could it be because NED will withdraw funding if you don’t generate negative news about China? Fact is the scholarship notice said nothing about hacking.
@bobbywong: the ad mentions a national defense scholarship. Would such scholarships normally be advertised for positions intended to build preschool web sites?
This ad only proves the existence of Unit 61398, nothing else.
Good for Mandiant!
Keep up the great work and expose the crimes of the Chinese Communists and their PLA! Help free the Chinese People from their terrible yoke!
Yeah Bo, about the Mandiant report. Unit 61398 runs a kindergarden at the address Mandiant cited, 208 Datong Road, Gaochao, Pudong.
According to online registration info, the school is public and welcomes expat families.
Could provide link to said kindergarten?
Naturally the job ad would say nothing about cyber-espionage or computer hacking. Yet the notion that a PLA computer-science unit would be spending all their time setting up pre-schools and educational sites is either ingenuous or naïve.
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