Cyber Attacks on US Linked to Chinese Military?

wiredog writes "Security expert Bruce Schneier is reporting on a continuing effort to penetrate US government and industry computer systems that most likely stems from the Chinese military." From the Terranet article: "The attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the techniques used make it appear unlikely to come from any other source than the military, said Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an education and research organization focusing on cybersecurity."

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And the third front of WWIII opens

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I've been saying all along that China is a threat- and this is really the third front of WWIII. The first front was China as an economic threat, joined by the WTO and US Retail corporations. The second front was the Islamo-fascist terrorist threat. This is the third front. Do we really have to wait for a fourth front to open up before we get serious and begin fighting this the same way we won WWII?

Re:And the third front of WWIII opens

[plantman-the-womb-st]

Well, this just proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are a complete idiot. China makes our inferior equipment, and if you think a nation with less than an eighth of China's population is able to throw vast numbers of troops at China then you failed kindergarden math.

Also, you seem to not realise that most of our national debt is financed by China. Do you actually think they'd fund our war against them?

Re:The mouse click heard 'round the world?

[TheRealMindChild]

I think if it ultimately gets out of hand, we will just blacklist all of china traffic at the backbones. They like to play by themselves phyically... so lets just help them out virtually too.

Re:Two Things (Rhetorical).

[Coffee Warlord]

2. Do you really think that anything really sensitive would be able to be accessed from the Internet?

This *is* the US gov't we're talking about here. I can almost guarantee you there are dozens of machines with highly sensitive data that are accidentally left accessible to the outside world.

Re:Politically Incorrect

[SQLz]

I have no idea what you just wrote. Is there a point somewhere in there?

USA finds Chinese hackers means...

[MetricT]

I guess they found a chink in our security. :-)

Just kidding, folks :)

Re:The mouse click heard 'round the world?

[greg_barton]

More witless conspiracy mongering.

Yeah. No US owned and operated software company would ever knowingly commit treason!

Re:The mouse click heard 'round the world?

[lgw]

You *do* know Enron's stock *did* go to 0, right? Though in that case it was simply the market's reaction to Enron's financial shenanigans.

If you want to accuse "the oil companies" of price gouging in recent times, you must believe there is some "fair price" other than the price that clears the market, and we're off in fantasy land again. Where I was, some gas stations actually ran out of gas after Katrina - a sure sign the price was too *low*. But then, in your fantasy land, profits are probably some form of evil which must be combatted.

Learn enough about how money actually works and one day you, too, can accumulate enough of it to be a Republican!