Slashdot Mirror
U.S. Commerce Department Hacked Again
evil agent writes "The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), a branch of the Commerce Department, has sustained several successful attacks. Chinese hackers were able to gain access to its computers and install rootkits and other malware." From the article: "This is the second major attack originating in China that's been acknowledged by the federal government since July. Then, the State Department said that Chinese attackers had broken into its systems overseas and in Washington. And last year, Britain's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Center (NISCC) claimed that Chinese hackers had attacked more than 300 government agencies and private companies in the U.K."
Chinese hackers installing root kits? Are you sure they weren't Japanese (aka Sony)?
Hm...so this here purple panda bear says he wants to be my buddy and help me out on the intarweb. Sounds good to me! (click) Gosh I wonder why my workstation is so slow, almost as if its sending all its files to ch!@$!$JGOJ!THIS POST 0WNZ0R3D BY CHINESE HAXORS
The Chinese have been trying for years to lose that pesky Most-Favored-Nation status, and this administration is not going to give in.
Its not about whether the chinese or japanese did it. Its about whether the commerce dept knows enough to protect itself or not.
Wincopy
There is no source cited etc. no example shown, no logs etc. only that "new york post" said that. If true, is that department admiting idiocy? Even simple rule on the router that restricts whole **ina IP block to only certaing data resources could do the job. Keeping us scary they want. Fear agenda again?
1) If we continue to accept globalism, the US economy is ruined anyway. The global race for the bottom must eventually hit the rocks, because there is only so far wages can drop before the unrelenting cost of living becomes unbearable.
2) US companies already can't sell their goods abroad - or, more specifically, we're running a global trade deficit large enough to have its own gravitational field. Exactly what do we have to lose here?
3) US laws that tariff all goods made in sweatshop / undemocratic nations don't have that effect. If that law is put in place consistently, you can't undercut US companies in the US - not if you're Chinese, not if you're German, or British. Your rebuttal makes no sense - if Nike and its sweatshop operations moves to Singapore, they still have to deal with the tariff. If a Chinese Nike tries to undercut them, they too have to deal with the tariff. And if China decides not to buy any US goods... so what? We're in a deficit with them already! I propose that you don't even come into the US market unless you are an ethical player. Who's then going to undercut ethical companies in the US?
Oh, wait, offshoring to Europe won't hurt us as much because a) they also offshore heavily to us; and b) they have excellent worker protections and they're democratic.
4) Free trade with sweatshop nations / undemocratic regimes is going to ruin us any way. They're owning all our debt and they can also embargo us. (Oh yes, I know you think that despotic foreign nations can't embargo us. The 1970s and the oil embargo was all a lie. Sillyme.) Furthermore, we're transferring gobs of wealth to these monsters, impoverishing America and giving the world's most powerful enemies of freedom our cutting edge industrial capacity to boot. Germany should have sold us cheap shoes made of Jew labor, they would have won World War II with the help of the "surrender to globalism" agenda: there is nothing in your rhetoric that would provide for stopping them.
5) Free trade with nations that are attacking the United States will also lead to our annihilation. They can strike with impugnity, and others will follow.
Your theory is that fighting globalism leads to ruin. The facts say that giving into globalism leads to ruin anyway. I say die fighting; you say die in supplication.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!