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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."
For those who think that the US is a big teddy bear full of love for the world, freedom, and independence of the people we have two words to remember: Wako Texas.
I will never forget the images of those mothers and children being shot at, bombed and burned to death by fire shooting out of the barrels of tanks by the ATF without ever being told why their home was being attacked.
Say bad words about my book, in cold oatmeal, or I shall sue!
Leisure time is something I had plenty of for three years thanks to the first front I mentioned. Did it ever occur to you that war may have changed, and that there are people starving to death in America due to WWIII already?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
"I will never forget the images of those young people being shot at, arrested, stampeded out of the square by the Chinese military."
Uh-huh. Sure. What images?
By all accounts, nobody died in Tiananmen Sqauare in 1989. None. Zero. All those student protesters went home with imagines of a concerned government asking, for their own safety, for the students to go back home.
Instead, hundreds died around the square, but almost none of them were students. The students mattered to the government, they were the intelligencia, the future movers and shakers in the Beloved Party, and on top of that many of them had family and such out in the provinces, and news of their deaths would travel far and wide. But the general population of Beijing, the actual proletariat (in the terms of the Beloved Party) were far more expendable, and they were the ones killed.
Maybe they were rising up in support of the students, or maybe they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (guess which side supports which explanation), but "ZOMG all those dead students in the square!" marks you as one of those brianless sheep who believe what they're told, much like those you are trying to deride.
Hmm...good point. Esp. w/ the Bush Admin. trying to find ways to curb the export gap between the US and China. Of course, if that were the case we'd be seeing anti-Japan, anti-EU....but I wouldn't put it past our lovely GOP-controlled government.
GOP: Blame them! They did it! *runs away w/ embezzled funds*
This administration is also profoundly corrupt and incompetent. Since 9/11 it has squandered world sympathy, bungled the war on terrorism, created the kind of havoc in the Middle East that can only be beneficial to terrorists, and leaked national security secrets in order to settle petty political squabbles. I certainly hope you are wrong that this administration's tunnel-vision ideology and thoroughgoing incompetence extends to cyberspace too, but if the past few years are any guide, we might as well give up the cyberwar now.