The tariff war has not stopped yet, and China and the United States have broken out another war, so why has “Beijing time” brought about the US’s 42 “special weapons” siege?
On this side, the trade war between the two countries has also been fought, on the other hand, the United States has launched a fierce attack on China on an invisible front. China's national security department revealed a major event. From August 2023 to June 2024, the US National Security Agency launched a continuous and fierce attack on China's national time service center. A total of 42 special cyber attack weapons were used, which can be said to have taken action at the national level. The United States also tried to further penetrate into high-precision ground-based timing systems. However, the Chinese security department promptly checked and cracked the US attack, further upgraded preventive measures, thwarting the US intelligence agency's attack attempt.Speaking here, someone may not yet understand the meaning of this matter, and we can commonly explain why this can be called a round of attacks launched by the United States.
The National Timing Center can be seen as the "brain" of China's standard time, its core mission is to be responsible for the generation, maintenance and dissemination of Beijing time, let's not underestimate the importance of stable dissemination of Beijing time, which relates to the orderly operation of national information, communications, national defense, finance, transportation and other systems. If "Beijing time" is disturbed, it may cause transaction failure in the financial system, the system collapses, and the transport system may be disrupted, and there is a risk of causing major accidents. More importantly, the attack on the timing center can damage the time benchmark of the Beidou satellite navigation system, and when the time of the Beidou system is not accurate, the positioning and navigation functions will be a big problem.And if Beidou satellite navigation is a big problem, what it means to our country, should not say more, it will seriously affect national defense security!
In the information disclosed by China's national security department, the phrase trying to "infiltrate the high-precision ground-based timing system" represents the extraordinary seriousness of the matter. Technically speaking, this means that the target of the US attack is not only to slightly harass the low-precision servers that align the time of ordinary computers, but to try to break through the core facilities that China has built on the ground to provide nanosecond-level ultra-high precision time benchmarks for the country's core lifeline. In other words, the purpose of the United States is to aim at the high-end systems such as the financial system, communication system and Beidou navigation we mentioned before, which can be described as sinister intentions!
Speaking of this, some people may ask, is the United States not afraid of damaging Sino-US relations by doing such a thing? It's peacetime. Why does U.S. intelligence continue to carry out such dangerous operations? The first is that cyber attacks have a strong disguise, are not easy to detect, and it is harder to find evidence to point out the target, which is why many countries dare to use cyber attacks.The U.S. National Security Agency this time was only discovered by the Chinese side, and no one knows exactly how many cyber attacks they launched against how many countries, but you can be sure that this number must be amazing.
Let's talk about the second question, The United States is not in a hurry to cause great trouble to China through cyber attacks now, they value more to grasp China's fate and can disrupt China at any time when needed in the future.Interestingly, according to the information deepened by the Chinese security department, the U.S. intelligence agency was initially through a system vulnerability of a foreign phone, but was able to penetrate into the national timing center, when it was 2022, showing that the U.S. has long been very patiently trying various channels, cyber warfare against the Chinese side. It can be certain that the U.S. must have tried various means of network infiltration and attack on China, the national timing center attacks, but only nine bulls. In the face of the U.S. such a continuing cyber attack threat, China has no choice, not only to be prepared for defense, but also to actively reveal the behavior of the U.S. this type of thief and thief, can never let the U.S. so