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Chefs Who Spy? Tracking Google's Hackers in China
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230456310457636346
By JAMES T. AREDDY
JINAN, China—From this city of six million, Shandong Lanxiang Vocational
School quietly churns out 30,000 mechanics, barbers and welders each year.
One of its triumphs was training chefs who cooked for Olympic athletes at
the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
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James Areddy/The Wall Street Journal
A teaching kitchen at Lanxiang Vocational School in Jinan, China.
Google Inc. issued a surprise announcement this week, accusing Chinese
hackers from Jinan of hijacking personal Gmail accounts of senior U.S.
officials and others, by tricking them into disclosing their passwords.
Among those targeted were White House employees, people familiar with the
matter said.
Neither the White House nor Google has been more specific about who may have
perpetrated the attacks from this provincial capital, which also houses a
technical reconnaissance bureau roughly equivalent to the U.S. National
Security Agency.
But by singling out Jinan as the source of the attack's origins, attention
has also fallen on this giant school, which has longstanding ties to the
People's Liberation Army. At least one U.S.-based investigator has asserted
the school is a source of previous anti-U.S. hacking.
School officials have repeatedly denied any involvement in cyber attacks.
They declined to comment for this article.
The story of Lanxiang illustrates the murkiness that makes it so difficult
to pinpoint responsibility for computer attacks. Security researchers say it
's not difficult for hackers to mask the source of "phishing" emails, which
directed Gmail users to spoof websites that tricked them into giving up
their usernames and passwords.
And in a country known for top-flight engineering schools, Lanxiang never
had much of a profile. It doesn't even provide campus-wide Wi-Fi coverage. "
I don't think anybody from this school could be smart enough to attack a big
Internet company like Google," said Zhang Jian, a 22-year-old auto-repair
student dressed in a basketball jersey and flip flops.
In an hour-long guided tour Friday, it was easy to visit classrooms for
aspiring chefs, where up to 80 students at a time learn how to flip
vegetables in a wok. The school also has an assembly line, where students
learn how to wire automobile headlamps.
Shandong Jinan Lanxiang Vestibule School or Shandong Lanxiang Senior
Technical School is named for its founder and primary owner, Rong Lanxiang.
Mr. Rong, who turns 47 years old this month, has built a megalopolis of
training for China's burgeoning services sector—with help along the way
from the PLA.
In a March 2010 interview with state-run China National Radio, Mr. Rong said
his school has offered computer courses for 15 years and has a large
computer classroom with over 1,300 computers, which he called a world record
. But he said even computer science graduates of top universities have
trouble finding a job, so the courses aren't a priority at Lanxiang. Mr.
Rong couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Mr. Rong also explained how the relationship with the PLA started. As a 20-
year-old in 1984, Mr. Rong moved to Jinan and began offering a motorcycle
maintenance course. He quickly expanded the operations into other trades at
a time when many Chinese were pining to go into business.
Four years later, so was the PLA. Eager to spur its own revenue growth, the
army offered Mr. Rong a deal: a chunk of free land outside the city to
expand his school in exchange for a role, essentially incorporating it into
the military. "They needed us and we needed them as well," Mr. Rong said.
It isn't clear how the business was structured. In the late 1990s, the
government ordered the army to exit businesses. Mr. Rong reassumed control,
but some ties remained. Mr. Rong told the radio broadcast that his co-owners
today include family members of army officers.
"We grew up healthily in the army and got continuous education from the army
," he said.
If the school had any hand in the international hacking incident, that was
news to a 28-year-old chef who identified himself by the surname Zheng.
The slow speed of the Internet in Jinan is a persistent complaint around
campus, he said. "It's sometimes impossible to play online games."
—Yang Jie in Jinan, China, Siobhan Gorman in Washington and Amir Efrati in
San Francisco contributed to this article.
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