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China Enters the Digital Age with Student Hackers #shorts

BSides Frankfurt0:4895 viewsPublished 2026-01Watch on YouTube ↗
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Explore China's digital awakening in the late 90s, driven by university student hacker collectives. A fascinating look at the early days of cybersecurity. #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #AlixiaRutayisire #QuoIntelligence
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Now let's see how the Chinese model works. So um we have to start with the Chinese entry into the digital age uh in 1994. Um and uh by the late 90s you had the creation of informal networks of uh hacker collective that emerged. So most of them were actually university students that were passionate about tech and wanted to share um their knowledge and uh and also train and develop their capacities uh capabilities and uh so they created this this hacker collective