The Dark Dragons

When a nation grows, it grows in all directions: good and bad. And the fastest growing nation is China.

No doubt Chinese has made significant progress in its economy, sports, etc, but its dark sides show an equal amount of progress as well.

Now Chinese accounts for 67% of the web sites in the world that have malicious software, those that try to steal your personal data (details here). These 'malwares' put a small piece of software into your computer (through your internet downloads), collect as much information from your computer, and send back to the site owner. Then the information is used for fraud purposes. People who put malwares in your computer are robbers and thieves - period.

If we translate this virtual crime into real-world one, we can say that 2/3 of the thefts are committed by Chinese - this is something that shames the Chinese. Or put it another way, China has 1/6 of the world population, but 4/6 of the thieves are Chinese.

This is not something that we can take lightly. Just because cyber crimes are not easily punishable, it doesn't mean that it is OK to commit those crimes.

Chinese has one big problem: its absolute admiration of secular values. Everything is measured by how much wealth you have. Everything else is secondary.

Someone, be it government leaders, or NGOs, or concerned social reformers, have to do something to halt this trend. How? I don't have an answer. May be you do.