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..."

Comments

wake up people

[ILuvRamen]

When are we going to consider it an act of war and bomb them back to the stone age or at least stop buying their cheap plastic crap (and only buy their useful electronic crap) so their economy goes down the toilet, we can get cheaper oil, and their people sink into poverty and rise up against their opressive government and turn into a democracy? Sounds like a plan to me. We should at least anonymously EMP blast some of their major government datacenters to send them a message.

Re:wake up people

[ILuvRamen]

There was suddenly 10x the auto sales and ownerships in China. Everyone's rich from trading their crap with us (well okay selling it to us, not trading) and if we suddenly stop even just the non-essentials that anyone could live without, it would over for them. That's gotta be a third of their market at least. They make almost all of our toys! We can live without toys. Electronics not so much but cut out the multi-billion dollar toy trade and China's toast. And yes, we can anonymously EMP their datacenters. Drive an unmarked semi past, charge it up, and release a blast. They could probably even drive off too if they properly shielded their truck's electrical system. Or just sit there and look like every other stalled vehicle and the driver can ditch. Do you really think they'd have enough evidence to trace it back to us if we were careful? No way! We can't even trace most terrorist attacks correctly here in the US obviously. All they'd know is some random group from their own country or another one just EMP bombed them and they don't know who did it.

they are accurate

[WindBourne]

Look at how the yuan is tied to the dollar. It is designed to drain us. China's top people are in a war with us. But Bush's admin is the LAST person I want to see taking them on. Obama or Clinton would be superior in everyway. I suspect that both will try to negotiate this first, before escalating slowly.

W. has screwed us so bad, that we keep North Korea and Cuba on the terrorists list, of which NEITHER have been involved with anything since the 80's and have new leadership, while we have loads of proof that Venezuela is all over the war in Columbia. Yet, we do not put Venezuela on the list because we import too much oil from them. Had W. kept Clinton's battery research going, we would be on electrical cars. Of course, BC killed off Poppa Bush's IFR which was just about as stupid.