Chinese Government Accused of Hacking Congress

Alotau writes "Chinese hacking is getting some serious Congressional attention. Two House members said Wednesday their Capitol Hill computers, containing information about political dissidents from around the world, have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China. Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf says four of his computers were hacked. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith says two of his computers were compromised in December 2006 and March 2007. The two lawmakers are longtime critics of China's record on human rights."

Comments

Re:Windows Again!

[Odder]

Physical access will get them what if whole disk encryption was used? Hasn't that been a feature of Bastile Linux for five years?

Re:Stop using Windows

[reddburn]

Why, you put so much thought into that post! Thank you, for mindlessly parroting the party line and sharing the wonderful insight that nobody else could have possibly guessed might be posted here. Instead of copying and pasting a sentiment that we could find all over /., let's put some thought into this: how much time and effort would it take to train congressfolks and their useless, nepotistic hires on Linux? People bitch and moan that Congress never gets anything done: see how much they accomplish when they're recompiling their kernels, creating cool new startup scripts, and doing any one of the 3000 other tasks that the Penguin Posse loves to babble about to complete strangers. Let's hear a floor debate on the virtues of whichever GUI flavor of the month is better.