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Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon
iFrated informs us of a successful penetration of US Defense Department computers by the Chinese military last June. From the article: "The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defense secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack. Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the [Chinese] People's Liberation Army. One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a 'very high level of confidence... trending towards total certainty' that the PLA was responsible." The PLA is also accused of breaking into German government computers, including a network in the office of the Chancellor.
But they did give us General Tso's chicken, which is worthy of not only favored trading partner status, but worthy of several Nobel prizes.
This won't escalate into anything. While its true it could be seen as an act of war, we in the U.S. are not going to do anything that might jeopardize our supply of Happy Meal toys.
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They hack into pentagon! They can do anything! WE must stop them now! Take off every `zig`. FOR GREAT JUSTICE! (and taking care of that deficit thing - get rid of two stones with one bird!)
I looked at a carton of General Tso's chicken at the supermarket the other day. With all the carbohydrates in it, it should probably be classified as a bio weapon.
Everyone knows the password is "Joshua"... Just stick to the Chess simulation when you get inside the DoD servers or you could be absconded by the FBI in an unmarked panel van.
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
74 posts and no jokes yet about the Pentagon having a chink in their armor? I'm impressed. Honestly, I'm not sure what's scarier, this or all the cheap crap on the shelves at Wal-Mart.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Yeah, smart move.
I can see it now. Some wack-job malcontent who would otherwise have loaded up a truck with explosives and taken out half a federal building and its daycare centre will instead penetrate the network of a western company in China. From there, he will penetrate a Chinese low-security network, and launch an attack against the toilet paper inventory system at the Pentagon. This will trigger the IDS, and the next thing we know the United States of America launches a first-strike against the Henan branch of the People's Yak Testicle Grading Board because that's who the attacking IP address belongs to. China retaliates. The U.S.A. retaliates against the retaliation.
Still look like a good idea?
(And for fuck's sake, nobody mod this funny. Okay, the People's Yak Testicle Grading board is hilarious, but the thought of *any* automated system being hooked up to launch controls is the stuff of nightmares... especially when there's no real way to tell if the "attack" is from your opponent or someone else who wants to pin the blame on them. Someone massing troops on the border or lobbing nukes your way? Worth a military escalation. Someone probing your network? Not so much.)
OH? You didn't work in a spook house, did you! I know, because I did. What you are babbling about is security through obscurity. When I studied cryptography in university, one of the VERY FIRST things we were told, was that if this is what you used (or claimed to use) for security, then you are an idiot, and not worthy in the least of securing anything. Having a hard lock is better security (by a million times) than keeping the inner workings of your crappy lock a secret. Keeping your private information off of public networks is a real good idea. More than once I've called people attempting to put confidential information on public networks idiots. Linux is Open Source software. No one NO ONE! breaks in! I've read lots of crap about "its just as vulnerable". BULLSHIT! In thirteen years I've never had a virus! NOT ONE! And I've been on the internet the entire time. That people are using microsoft systems for secure information makes the people doing acquisition criminally liable. If they suggest microsoft again, JAIL! Get someone in there who has half a brain and half a clue.
Plant a few honeypot boxen around the Pentagon network, and load them up with tasty disinformation, aiming for outcomes like:
* Making an advanced US capability seem flaky or ineffective
* Making a flaky or undeveloped US capability seem advanced and devastating
* Sending the Chinese into fruitless directions in R&D, costing them billions
* Trick the Cninese into types of action that could yield up some useful intel for the US
The opportunities are endless.
Operation GW commenced January 20th 2001 and has successfully misled the world into thinking we are idiots. We have made it appear we make vast amounts of wealth disappear through military industrial graft and sunk our monetary values 40% relative to other western powers. We've gotten involved in a war we knew we couldn't leave gracefully, and shown corruption at every level. We have given the appearance of crushing our education system with theology, and appeared to have revised the public education curriculum to cater to the dumbest common denominator. We have lulled the entire world into thinking we are a country of backwards mouth breathers.As soon as we devalue our currency to 20% relative value and ensure 99% of all top ivy league school student are foreign we will truly be in a position to surprise the world without awesome cunning and leap forth and conquer the world.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I prefer the term MiKKKro$hit myself. Not only does replacing soft with shit indicate my opinion of their software, along with the dollar sign indicating how greedy they are, I believe replacing the 'c' with KKK will portray them as the oppressive organization that they are, along with completely destroying any semblance of respect my post might have commanded up until that point.
it really boils down to how much you're willing to spend on your next pair of Nikes.
I'd say it really boils down to how much you're willing to spend on your next pair of Nukes.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.