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."

Comments

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: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?