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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 just toured the Hoover dam a few weeks ago. One of the guides was quite the dry wit. As we rode the elevator down he made note that the government never spent a dime to build or operate the dam, and that all debts were recently retired. He then deadpanned, "It was a great idea. That's why it's never been done again."
-Peter
I was really surprised by the whole energy of the place. When I went to McDonalds and they didn't have my food immediately, they said no problem we will find you and bring it to you when its ready. 2 min latter I had my fries. This particular McDonald's had around 30 registers all open. They said that they served 6000 lunches everyday -- just nuts. You won't find any fast food resturant in the US that can manage that volume and provide good service too.
The only downside was all the street vendors, which annoyed our tour guide. She said that they all had day jobs, but would often call in sick to go run side businesses to make extra money.
In closing, the US needs to sell $3,000,000,000 in bonds everyday to China just to keep running. If they really wished us harm they could just stop buying our debt. Once China no longer relies on exports we will be at their mercy. That will happen in around 10 - 20 years just when the US needs money to fund SS payments to baby-boomers.
Well duh... the only problem that people fail to realize effectively is that we are at a serious disadvatage (not so much in the cyber realm) but in the actual espionage realm. China is free to sponsor students to come to the US (and they do regularly). Chinese embassies hold yearly meetings and invite the sponsored students to the embassies and they don't talk about the weather. This is actually fairly commmon in academic fields (even in my field of microbiology). It barely even rates as espionage in most cases because the data will get published in public journals. Now you try running that with a white guy in China who doesn't speak any Chinese language well. Its not going to be easy. Whereas you see someone in science here who is Chinese with good to poor English speaking skill you don't think twice. So in a certain sense it is a ONE WAY street. They are mining a lot of useful intelligence from us and all we can do is supply it.
What do you mean? Japan has a lot of manufacturing capability in the US! It's also worth noting that during the peiod from 1995-2002 (if I remember the news story correctly), the US lost 2 million manufacturing jobs to China, but China lost 15 million manfacturing jobs to automation. Much of that automation is here in the US. Just because there aren't manufacturing jobs here doesnt mean there isn't manufacturing capacity here. Eventually, everything is built by robots and there are *no* manufacuting jobs - but more manufacturing capacity than ever.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
>It would be a naive point of view to think that it hasn't already started. It would be equally naive to assume that the U.S. is not at the forefront of such a war.
We already lost the war.
America spent over $1 trillion in the 70's, 80's, and 90's creating the information economy.
Then shipped it to China and India in a matter of a few years.
They couldn't have taken $1 trillion in advantage from us in a shooting war, but they got it anyway.
The war is over, and this activity by the Chinese is to protect them from our attempt to take it back.