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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."
I'm sure Bruce will be modded down as an xenophobic hate monger who writes flamebait.
Never mind that the US does have enemies and those enemies are actively trying to subvert our government, financial markets, and military.
It has become unpopular in the US to think, let alone say, that the Chinese are a communist nation hellbent on defeating us in the long term and that they should be considered the bad guys.
Not your average Chinese citizen of course; but the communist government that lies to and supresses its own people.
As soon as someone says this we hear the "Bush lied, people died" mantra of the lefties who seem to prefer suppressive murderous governments and leaders yet somehow always fail to emigrate to enjoy the lifestyle they seem to hold so dear.
What say you Diane Feinstein? Should we appease the Chinese government? Just license our secrets to the Chinese so at least we could make some money off of them?
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?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
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.
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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.
I guess they found a chink in our security. :-)
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Just kidding, folks
More witless conspiracy mongering.
Yeah. No US owned and operated software company would ever knowingly commit treason!
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!
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