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The Invasion of The Chinese Cyberspies
HorsesAss writes "Time Magazine has an article up entitled 'The Invasion Of The Chinese Cyberspies and the Man Who Tried to Stop Them', which outlines how Chinese PRC is cracking DOD networks and downloading massive sets of files detailing every aspect of military planning and practice." From the article: "The hackers he was stalking, part of a cyberespionage ring that federal investigators code-named Titan Rain, first caught Carpenter's eye a year earlier when he helped investigate a network break-in at Lockheed Martin in September 2003. A strikingly similar attack hit Sandia several months later, but it wasn't until Carpenter compared notes with a counterpart in Army cyberintelligence that he suspected the scope of the threat. Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find, and they were getting them by penetrating secure computer networks at the country's most sensitive military bases, defense contractors and aerospace companies."
There are massive destruction weapons in Irak...
It feels like someone is trying to find an excuse to go on war with China.
I am not anti-american. I have friends and customers in USA. But I guess it's time to have a wake-up call, my friends. Anyway, if it's not war, it's outsourcing.. tough luck.
And Rumsfeld sez: "We're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here."
The neocons we've got running the Pentagon can't even beat the Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead they've started a war in Iraq they've screwed up so bad that we can't win. Instead of at least focusing our defense against an actual country, China. No, for China the neocons have "Most Favored Nation" trading status, so they can get our industrial base, AND control our debt market.
I wonder if this was part of the plan George Bush Sr hatched when he was Nixon's first ambassador to China, "opening them up". Open fire, more like it.
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make install -not war
Ah, to bait the trollish sentiment of doom
1. Taiwan is a small and culturally and economically insignificant island off the coast of a massive country. Almost everyone of economic significance in Taiwan is forging commercial links with the mainland. The mainland see it of minor importance, gaining points purely in chest beating; 300 years ago Chinese were a minority on the island, Ploynesians were the majority. It has zero cultural or economic significance for Chine.
2. China, unlike the US, has huge coal resources, which can provide the bulk of national power requirements for the next 30 years (providing the power plants and lines get put up). Everyone may indeed like to drive a car (car ownership does not increase linearly with income, insetead it goes from 10% of the population to 80% of the population in a decade - witnessed in South Jorea and Japan), but unlike the US it is not necessary or desirable to drive a car 10 miles along a congested freeway or highway to get to work, it is more similar to European population concentration and reliance on public transport.
3. Korea. If Korea get the chance to deliver nukes (well, it already has nukes and missiles to go several hundred miles, even if it hasn't been witness to combine them) it would be tragically comical to see it get invaded/bombed/decimated by China, Japan, Russia and the US (South Korea) almost simulteneously.
4. Southest Asia. Dont know that you mean by "that part of the world has cooled considerably in the last 30 years". Yes they have lost their cold war jingoism (from both sides); economics 101 surely teaches that mutual treade, sharing of expertise, and co-operative development aids all involved. Of course that is subject to an environment encouraging free trade, not hegoistic partisanship (cold war).
5. South and Central America. Reasons are not unclear at all. Those regions a natural resource rich and useful to a developing country, especially one with cash to burn (witness the Chinese saving rate vs. the global average - saving has to go somewhere and acquisition of US companies is conviently resisted).
Where does it all lead? To one country bettering itself and another country so obsessed with competition against others, from little leauge baseball to nuclear aircraft carriers, it believes being superiou to others is synominous to being satisfied, yet satisfaction never arives.