So... going back a bit in the topic.
Chinese government creates gui interface in visual basic, capable of tracking an IP address.
I'm guessing this is all just propaganda. They do a looooot of propaganda. What I'm guessing is that this mockup was put together to trick people inside the system into thinking their awesome cyberwarfare division was doing these hacks right now! Then somewhere along the way they decided to screen it for their other propaganda, which led to this getting screened.
I will say that it wouldn't be the first time that CCTV-7 has shown things publicly that would be considered classified in most countries. I boggled at the shows I saw while I was there. Between the amount of time I spent watching those, and the surreptitious photos I snapped of J-6's flying training patrols, I'm surprised I didn't wind up in a nice long chat with the PSB.
The entire Chinese intelligence operation comes off as being heavily incompetent, this isn't the first time they've gotten egg on their face. Although for the most part, that's just the propaganda machine getting in the way. China's a lot more interested in lauding how big and shiny their guns are than actually having effective ones. Which is funny, because it will later turn around and proclaim how weak and vulnerable it is, and how much of a danger other countries pose to it.
Of course there's other things. The great firewall of China is full of holes, and sometimes it doesn't even work at all.
Then there's that whole tailing thing, if you're a journalist, you apparently tend to to get tailed by Chinese operatives... and by operatives, I mean people they apparently picked at random from their line of volunteers, then told to "go follow that guy and tell us what he does." From what I hear, they don't seem to care about being found out, they do it in very plain terms, and if you confront them it turns into a Monty Python sketch.
"Why are you following me?"
"I'm err... Bird watching, that's it, bird watching!"
"In the middle of a parking garage."
"Yes err, you never know what kinds of birds you'll find in- oh look at that!"
"... Why are you hiding behind that car?"
"... So I don't scare off the birds?"
One story I heard this woman was having a conversation with a random man she met while picking up groceries, he asks if he can practice his English on her, so they have a very awkward conversation about fruit. One of the guys who had been following him around walks up and asks, "Excuse me, could you translate what you just said for my brother over there, he's very curious." Of course, he doesn't believe it's about fruit so then he asks the man, "Could I have your name?" he just says, "no," and walks away.
Of course I don't doubt it's unpleasant, but if you're looking for smooth, secretive, highly professional, intelligence agency. Don't go to China.
EDIT:
gasp Free online course this fall from Stanford: "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.
http://www.ai-class.com/
" 7. Will the lectures be available in any other languages?
We are looking into adding Chinese subtitles. "
Conspiracy!
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