China's Cyber-Militia

D. J. Keenan notes that the cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China's cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China's actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attackers may have been involved in major power outages in the US. "Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of US companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to US government officials and computer-security experts..."

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Re:Some quotes from the article

[ColdWetDog]

How about another view on this.

If you don't want to go there, the short version is that the data for hacking into the power systems is pretty darn weak.

Since we can't beat up Iran anymore, we have to have somebody to hate.

Re:I hope this guy isn't getting paid

[TubeSteak]

Wow, has professional writing ever gone downhill. Ever heard of a period? You've obviously never read anything written over a hundred years ago.
Professional writing used to be a competition to put on paper the longest sentence with the least amount of punctuation possible.

What we call a paragraph, they called a sentence.