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Talk on Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Blackhat

It was recently announced that the talk about the Chinese Cyber Army was no longer going to be a part of Blackhat.

Threatpost writer Dennis Fisher recently posted this on the threatpost blog.

After reading about the talk getting pulled I was enraged to put it nicely. As the post stated, this isn’t the first time that talks have been threatened to be pulled but in this case it’s different.

The way I take it, the Chinese/Taiwanese don’t want to expose potentially useful information to people who’s countries may want to start their own “Cyber Army”. By keeping research and training techniques to themselves they almost monopolize the idea of “Cyber Armies”.

The post said that Wayne Huang had been giving a similar talk since the 90′s, why can’t they just cut out the stuff they don’t want exposed and let him give another talk on the same subject matter? It wouldn’t be much different than the US government publicly releasing information after it had been declassified.

How do you HackTalkers feel about this? Should Wayne Huang still be allowed to give the same (or potentially crippled) speech he’s been giving all along?

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