No offense to any Chinese folks on this forum but what their hackers did is nothing special. With the right tools and software, most anyone can pull it off. The trick is 1. not getting caught and 2. obtaining the resources. For the Chinese, they don't have to fear being caught, it's not like American police are going to kick down their door like what would happen within minutes in the u.s. They also have financial backing for resources that most hackers would only dream of having. That being said, the fact that we now know precisely where the hacking attacks came from tells me one thing, the Chinese hackers aren't as good as they want us to believe. For all the resources they have, even the best in the world should have taken much longer to zero in on them. As a matter of fact, if they didn't rely so much on sitting in one base back in China and utilized more in depth strategies practiced by many western/Russian hackers, then it should have been to a point where the attack gets traced back to a different location and make it look like the Saudis or Iran did it. Anything but just pointing it back at themselves. I know I'm sounding a bit harsh on my judgment but these guys have fuck tons of money and resources. There should be no reason they got tracked like this unless either a. they aren't as good as they say, or b. they wanted us to know it was them. My bet is a.