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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."
What's the problem exactly? It's not like this is an act of espionnage.
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The Chinese government is a mafia. Which controls its population through propaganda, purges, public executions, defamation, and other terrorism. Terrorism isn't the planebomb that blows up the building. It's the planebomb that blows up the building on TV, controlling literally millions of times as many people as it killed. That's the "asymmetric" threat, that weaker/poorer adversaries like the Qaeda, China or McVeigh can use to beat the US government and the American people. There's no line between "terrorists" and a country's military, as Kadafi, Gerry Adams, Saddam or Arafat would tell you.
The decentralized Internet can be threatened only by decentralized attacks: DDoS, for example. Russian Communism was no match for decentralized American Capitalism, focused in centralized American Federalism. But Chinese Communism, grafted into their state capitalism, is much more decentralized. With a huge domestic population, connected to a distributed, sophisticated "overseas Chinese" population, they have a much larger "surface to volume" ratio than we do for challenging the US. Combined with their insider clout, controlling so much American manufacturing while owning so much Treasury debt (and providing its best market), they already have the US over a barrel.
It was a terrible mistake to put George Bush in charge of defending us from enemies like China. Not only can't he think for himself, but his (literal) legacy is the market that his father opened as Nixon's first ambassador to China. Judging merely the results of that policy through the decades since, I'd say that the deal was cut 35 years ago. Carving off a huge chunk of American security to China, with the Bush dynasty taking its fat cut. Fortunately for us, America is so open, decentralized, aggressive and regenerative that we start out with a huge advantage. But if we keep letting these Bush people run the show, we'll start looking a lot like England did through the 20th Century, as their former hick colony obliterated them on the world stage. The difference is that China is no American colony, they don't speak the English that could combine our societies for truly mutual benefit, and the world is a lot smaller today - while China is a lot bigger.
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I am going to get hammered for this one. Here is the problem as I see it. 1. Chinese IP addresses are known for massive hacking attempts and brekins. 2. Excessive amounts of spam come for Chinese IP addressses, quite possible the largest percentage. 3. The Chinese government censors the Internet for it's public, not permitting a very large percentage of U.S. sites access. For these three reasons alone, the U.S. government needs to pass a law, that until the Chinese get thier act together - ALL IP ADDRESSES ASSIGNED TO THE CHINESE BE BLOCKED. The only acception for this is email addresses be allowed only to companies that formally request access. This is harsh but necessary. I see the Chinese as a threat to the freedom that is the Internet.
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