Chinese Websites Used As Launchpads For Cracking

An anonymous reader writes "A Washington Post article reports that Chinese networks are being used to breach hundreds of unclassified U.S. government systems. The article goes on to say that some analysts believe the activity to be tied to the Chinese government, although there is also some dissent." From the article: "Whether the attacks constitute a coordinated Chinese government campaign to penetrate U.S. networks and spy on government databanks has divided U.S. analysts. Some in the Pentagon are said to be convinced of official Chinese involvement; others see the electronic probing as the work of other hackers simply using Chinese networks to disguise the origins of the attacks."

Comments

Oh, it's espionage is it...

[gowen]

By the same logic the Chinese Government is trying to overthrow western democracy using methods indistinguishable from incoherent spam emails about cheap viagra.

Microsoft / China "shared source" initiative?

[dyfet]

Was it not all that long ago that Microsoft agreed to "share" it's source with the Chinese government? I had wondered what became of that...

Must...resist....urge....

[hawkeye_82]

In soviet China, website hacks you. /flinches for rotten fruit attack

why don't they...

[justforaday]

I don't see why the government doesn't just create it's own private network for data communication. And maybe if they were feeling really generous they could let some of the more prestigious universities out there onto it also...

If you've done nothing wrong...

[yotto]

Then you have nothing to fear from the Chinese knowing all the information the US government has collected on you.

Re:If you've done nothing wrong...

[gstoddart]

Please refrain from using the phrase "my bad". Put kindly, it makes you look like a complete assfuck.

If you wish to acknowledge a mistake of yours, you could always say something along the lines of, "Pardon my misunderstanding," or, "It was I who erred."

Please refrain from calling people complete assficks and giving them alternative ways of speaking.

It makes you sound like a complete assfuck.

If you wish to correct the way someone communicates to a third party, STFU.

Re:If you've done nothing wrong...

[CyricZ]

Pardon me, my good sir, but what are "assficks"?

General Ripper on line 1, sir.

[McGregorMortis]

I can no longer sit back and allow Chinese infiltration, Chinese indoctrination, Chinese subversion, and the international Chinese conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious computers.

Re:IT IS TRUE!!!

[grasshoppa]

China _does_ have oil.

Well, there now, sounds to me like they may be harboring terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.

We must persevere. Stay true to our convictions, and continue to sacrifice. For the good of the world, in our war on terrorism.

When we learn?

[MrCopilot]

Did Matthew Broderick teach us nothing?

Damn - More Outsourcing

[ppp]

Those hacking jobs rightfully belong to Americans!

It is the present day Top Gun

[SimianOverlord]

This is today's version of the Top Gun film. There is a silent war happening between two superpowers and the heroes of that war are neither remembered or mourned. I'd say the American team of computer experts fighting virtual dogfights with Chinese hackers are just as brave and committed as those fine pilots like Maverick, Iceman or Joker. And let us hope there is no Goose - that these brave experts do not pay for the work they do on our behalf with their lives.

I wonder if the American computer experts do an electronic 'flyby' of their bosses computer systems. I bet they do, and so they should, for our country is a country undeniably committed to freedom and no concentration of force in real or virtual worlds will change that. Let the Chinese do their worse - they will soon learn that superior American training and technology and goddam GUTS, like in Top Gun, will prevail.

Re:Idealism

[servicemaster]

Sounds like...

"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!" ...

"You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line!". Hahahahahah!"
[Vizzini falls over dead]

Vizzini, Princess Bride

Re:Horrible statistics

[Camel Pilot]

Uhmm thermopile there probably are 1.6% of women out there who would sleep with you but they would be what I would call "high risk"!

Re:At least we know it's not the Russians!

[commodoresloat]

So you're saying that the CIA spent time and money reading photocopied summaries of reports from the New York Times?