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The Beijing hack attack
Hong Kong-based cyber warriors
build anti-China techno army
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Editor's Note: Computer hacking - once the
shadowy domain of misfits, pranksters
techno-critics and spies - has taken center stage.
While Y2K "czar" John Koskinen pleads
publicly with hackers to cease and desist
during the century date-change, reports
escalate daily of cyber-terrorism threats and
malevolent computer viruses embedded in
e-mail, timed to activate on Jan. 1.
But there is another side to hacking.
WorldNetDaily's roving international
correspondent, Anthony C. LoBaido, while
enduring seven weeks of one of Hong Kong's
hottest summers on record, was allowed into
the secret realm of one of the world's leading
computer hacking organizations.
By Anthony C.
LoBaido
© 1999
WorldNetDaily.com
HONG KONG --
What do blondes,
Jack in the Box tacos
and 21st century
cyber-warfare have in
common? Everything, apparently, if you're one
of the elite and stealthy soldiers in Hong Kong
Blondes' computer hacking universe.
These committed soldiers are locked in mortal
combat with the government of the People's
Republic of China and the transnational
corporations who profit from dealing with it.
"Human rights are a global concern and we
have no second thoughts about attacking the
multinational corporations who profit off of the
human rights abuses committed against our
Chinese brothers and sisters by their own
government," says Databyte Cowgirl, one of
the leaders of the Hong Kong Blondes.
Along with numerous other members of the
Hong Kong Blondes, Databyte Cowgirl was
interviewed by WorldNetDaily over the course
of seven weeks in July and August of 1999, as
well as during the past several weeks.
"The Chinese government officials are just as
bad as the Nazis. Only, for some reason, the
multinational corporations find China and
other communist regimes around the world to
be more politically digestible," she added.
"The gross human rights violations of the
Chinese leadership, like the logai gulag
system, religious persecution, forced organ
harvesting, abortion and the crackdown on the
Falong Gong Tai Chi movement are the
epitome of evil. The only way we have to fight
against them is via the high-tech realm."
The story of the Hong Kong Blondes is a
fascinating, twisted tale, stranger than fiction.
To begin, the group was formed by the
infamous (to the communist Chinese
dictatorship) or renowned (to computer
"hackers" the world over) Blondie Wong.
Although his name is unfamiliar to the general
public of both American and China, Blondie
Wong is a man who is well known to the
Chinese government, the People's Liberation
Army, the National Security Agency of the U.S.,
the CIA, FBI, Interpol and numerous Fortune
500 companies.
Although he now lives in exile in Toronto,
Canada, under the protection of armed
bodyguards, as a young boy Blondie Wong
saw his beloved father stoned to death by
Chairman Mao's Red Guards during the
Cultural Revolution. Years later he traveled to
the United Kingdom, where he entered
university and studied to become a teacher. In
the summer of 1989, after witnessing the
Tienanmen Square massacre on television,
Blondie Wong decided to form the Hong Kong
Blondes and their sister hacking group, the
Yellow Pages.
At first, Wong started small -- organizing a
close circle of friends he believed he could
trust. Later he launched an international
recruiting campaign aimed at some of the
finest computer engineering universities in
America and around the world.
Ranging from Cal Tech to MIT, Blondie Wong
assembled an elite army of sympathetic
hackers. Young men and women who only a
few short years before had been high school
geeks with thick glasses and pocket protectors
now became the front line of attack against the
communist Chinese government.
They pledged allegiance to Blondie Wong's
crusade against communist China and turned
their collective computer science and
engineering skills into a sharp spear. Within a
few months, this spear was capable of
penetrating the internal affairs of China's
military industrial complex, as well as the
Western transnational corporations that do
business with China.
"One of the reasons that human rights in China
are not further ahead is because they have been
de-linked from American trade policy," Wong
said in a document released through Cult of
the Dead Cow, a U.S.-based hacker group that
has advised the Blondes on technical issues.
"When human rights considerations were
associated with doing business with the United
States, at least there was the threat of losing
trade relations, of some form of punishment.
Now this just doesn't exist. Beijing successfully
went around Congress and straight to
American business, so in effect, businessmen
started dictating foreign policy," Wong
explained.
"By taking the side of profit over conscience,
business has set our struggle back so far that
they have become our oppressors too," Wong
said.
To deal with their oppressors, the Blondes
began reading the private email of
multinational executives and People's
Liberation Army officers. They downloaded
secure information such as satellite access
codes, and even produced forged credentials
giving Hong Kong and mainland colleagues
access to People's Liberation Army facilities.
Closer to home in Hong Kong, the Blondes
began meeting at a local Jack in the Box
restaurant, where they would munch on tacos
while exchanging customized diagnostic
software tools with one another. These tools
were used to launch attacks against the PLA's
computer systems through DoS or "Denial of
Service" - in which a system is overloaded with
millions of "hits" on a website. Other attack
modes include erasing important data, altering
and planting disinformation, and "spoofing" or
attacking the processor of a computer network
so as to gain root privileges -- the ability to
execute commands and functions -- within the
PLA network.
As time progressed, members of the Hong
Kong Blondes leadership told WorldNetDaily
they began actually to install codes within the
PLA computer mainframes. By using cellular
modems, they were able to monitor the
electromagnetic signals emitted by PLA
computers by remote means. The Blondes even
planted transmitters within the offices of the
Chinese government, People's Liberation Army
and foreign corporate headquarters in order to
monitor their activities and infiltrate their
computer networks.
For those who doubt Blondie Wong's legions
and capabilities, the group, as if to prove itself,
temporarily disabled a key People's Liberation
Army military satellite. Several PLA military
officers questioned by WorldNetDaily in Hong
Kong confirmed this intrusion.
In fact, the Chinese government and military
officially recognized the unauthorized attack
on their hardened, restricted systems in a press
release.
"In 1999, there were 228 cyber-attacks launched
within Hong Kong, in 1998, there were only
34," said Lo Yik Kee, chief superintendent of
the newly formed Police Computer Crime
Bureau, which will start operations on January
1, 2000.
"We've seen a large increase in hacking
incidents and due to the transnational nature of
this kind of activity, it will only increase in the
future."
The Jack in the Box restaurant where the Hong
Kong Blondes used to meet was closed down,
putting an end to the group's taco fests. Yet, the
space was renovated into an Internet café, from
which the group first launched its PLA
infiltrations. Since then, the cyber cafe, which
stood near the TST subway station on Hong
Kong Island, has been closed down as well.
But the hacking unit formed by Blondie Wong
continues to grow.
According to China's Ministry of Public
Security, there were 72,000 cyber-attacks
launched against the PLA on mainland Chinese
soil in the first nine months of this year. Of
those, 165 were admitted to have been
"successful."
A spokesman for the National Security Agency
in Washington, D.C. told WorldNetDaily that
there are "less than 1,100 recognized hacking
experts worldwide." Blondie Wong and his
followers definitely appear to be included in
that number.
"The PLA is about to launch a fourth division
of its military," said Ashton Tyler Baines in a
recent interview with WorldNetDaily. A
London-born computer programmer who now
lives in the New Territories north of Kowloon
Island in the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, Baines has been a
member of the Hong Kong Blondes for the past
two years.
"The PLA wants to control the cyberspace of its
enemies, while at the same time preventing
attacks on its own cyberspace," she explained.
Baines told WorldNetDaily that the Hong
Kong Blondes and the Yellow Pages have
"already placed over 40 social engineers
[computer operators who act as moles for the
Blondes] inside the PLA's newly created
cyberspace division."
"The PLA is in for a rude awakening. We can
infiltrate, alter and even crash several of their
networks. We're putting in backdoors. We're
writing bad code into the CD-ROMs they use
as backups for their off-line servers. We have
already infected the backup off-site copies of
their CD-ROMs. We understand most of their
security protocols because we wrote most of
them into the software," she added.
As one would expect, the Hong Kong Blondes
are a secretive group who depend totally on
the honor of their members. Yet their leaders
told WorldNetDaily they "encourage other
interested parties to form their own hacking
groups."
The Hong Kong Blondes won't disclose the
numbers on their membership roster for two
reasons. Primary, of course, is concern for the
security of their members. But the Blondes also
admit they aren't exactly sure just how many
elite hackers around the world have aligned
themselves with their agenda.
"Ironically, we follow Chairman Mao's dictates
of warfare. We are organized into small cells
which are independent of one another. Cut off
one head of a cell, and another will emerge in
its place," said Baines.
"Anyone can join our cyber army. The goals
and objectives are clear and well known in
underground hacking circles. First, infiltrate
the PLA -- their communications satellites,
space program and supercomputers, which can
perform billions of operations in a single
second. Second, the multinational corporations
who are feeding the PLA weapons frenzy.
Third, we like to go after COSCO (the Chinese
Overseas Shipping Company) which is nothing
more than a front for the PLA to acquire the
financial muscle it needs to expand and
threaten Free Asia and the West."
According to Databyte Cowgirl, the Blondes
and the Yellow Pages are also targeting the
financial operations of Ted Turner's CNN and
his Atlanta Braves Baseball team, as well as
transnational companies "like Coca-Cola who
do business with the Islamic jihad government
of Sudan." She was referring to the Sudanese
"holy war" that has resulted in the deaths of
millions of black South Sudanese Christians
since 1983.
Additional targets include AT&T's new Lucent
Technologies, which will handle future
"cashless" transactions over the telephone, and
the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa
corporation, the latter with known ties to the
People's Liberation Army. Hutchison Wampoa
is due to take over the operation of the
strategically vital Panama Canal in the year
2000.
"It's high time we began attacking the money
the elite has stashed away by arming the PLA
and profiting on the suffering of the Chinese
people," said Baines.
"Banking, stocks, bonds, IRAs, gold bullion,
money transfers, pension accounts and
everything else you can think of. If the CIA can
go after the bank accounts of (Serbian
President) Milosevich, then we can go after the
private bank accounts of China-lovers like
Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.
Kissinger makes millions of dollars every year
speaking and lobbying on behalf of Western
multinational engagement with China. That's
blood money on his hands and we intend to
take it back -- so he'd better be hiding his
money under his mattress."
Tracey Kinchen, a former M1-5 agent with
British Intelligence, assists the Hong Kong
Blondes and the Yellow Pages with acquiring
fake travel credentials and other sensitive
items needed for international travel. Kinchen
brings three qualities to the Hong Kong
Blondes which its members claim are
indispensible. First, she is the group's only
natural blonde. Second, she is the spitting
image of Hollywood actress Julie Holden.
Third, and most importantly they say, she
loves Jack in the Box tacos.
In an interview with WorldNetDaily conducted
at the World Trade Center in Bangkok,
Thailand, Kinchen spelled out the reasons she
supports the Hong Kong Blondes' efforts.
"Blondie Wong and the Hong Kong Blondes
would never want to hurt anyone. They follow
Ghandi's and Martin Luther King's worldview
of non-violence," she told WorldNetDaily.
"But they also understand that the nature of
warfare has changed. Who could have known
that the supercomputers the Pentagon only
dreamed about a half century ago would one
day become home appliances capable of the
most high-tech industrial espionage?"
Kinchen said that information technology is the
"refuge of last resort" and the "perfect medium
to conduct low intensity warfare."
"The NSA's budget is eight times larger than
the CIA's. They handle most of the intelligence
workload. Yet, with all of their state of the art
equipment they haven't been able to touch
Blondie Wong, or any of us for that matter."
While maintaining strict loyalty to Blondie
Wong and his compatriot, the shadowy Lemon
Li who lives in exile in St Nazare, France, the
Hong Kong Blondes and the Yellow Pages are
rapidly expanding.
In addition to cells at Cal Tech and MIT, the
group has set up new cells at Baylor, Texas
A&M, West Point, Liberty Baptist -- and the Air
Force Academy in Colorado.
"Our movement is a lot like witchcraft in
colonial Salem," said Michael Ming, a
Chinese-born computer science student at
Texas A&M University in College Station,
Texas.
"Most people assume "The Crucible" version of
unjust witch hunts in Salem is the truth. But I
believe witchcraft was real and powerful in
Salem. Not because of the witches, but because
the general population believed that it had real
power. As long as the PLA knows we're out
there, we'll be agitating them and taking away
their comfort zone."
Ming added, "Now that the NSA, Echelon and
PLA understand that we have a virtually
undetectable, un-infiltratable, loose-knit
organization with total allegiance to Blondie
Wong and his goals, we're going to become
even more of a threat to them. Even if they
found us and took us out, thousands would
rise up to take our places. Even the PLA can't
kill that fast."
The Hong Kong Blondes recently presented
this WorldNetDaily reporter with a large
mahogany replica of Noah's Ark, complete
with 500 animal and people pieces. The ark
was hewn by persecuted priests who languish
inside the boundaries of mainland China.
This band of anarchists, snoops, humanists,
Christians, Buddhists and blondes, both real
and imagined, has united in pursuit of a
common goal -- to "fight the powers that be" by
"hacking the planet."
This reporter recently said goodbye to the
Hong Kong Blondes' Thailand-based cell at the
"Pam Pam" restaurant in Bangkok's World
Trade Center. Pam Pam is the innocuous name
given to Thailand's newest Jack in the Box
franchise. The restaurant's menu features every
item Jack in the Box lovers crave, from curly
fries to sourdough burgers. Conspicuously
absent are the tacos.
Yet, hanging on the walls of Pam Pam's
restaurant are giant pictures of the beloved
tacos. And just below those pictures sit a neat
row of state of the art computers, just waiting
for the birth of a new Hong Kong Blondes cell.
Hack the planet.
Anthony C. LoBaido is a roving international
correspondent for WorldNetDaily.
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