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."

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Re:Windows Again!

[YrWrstNtmr]

Jebus...can we leave the OS wars out of it? Just this once?

From the line you quoted, it sounds like they had physical access to the machine to do the copying. Any and every OS will fall if you have the thing in your hands.

Re:Windows Again!

[willyhill]

It's kind of a running joke that twitter is such a massive failure at advocating free software, often garnering more scorn and ridicule than the credibility and recognition he craves, that he must be employed by Microsoft to make all free software advocates look bad by simple association.

Unlike his claim that anyone who disagrees with him must work for Microsoft, I don't actually believe that. But the fact that someone would actually consider it is bad enough.

Instead of changing his behavior though, he just creates more sockpuppets (three of which have already posted in this thread), garnering even more derision and ridicule in the process.

Re:Windows Again!

[dedazo]

His objective is to get modded up so he can use the resulting mod points on some accounts to drive the others, mod down people he doesn't like, etc. As long as it's obviously working (as in this thread), he'll keep doing it.

Unfortunately there seems to be a Fight Club-like rule that talking about twitter in a thread where he's posting with five different accounts is a big no-no. You're a troll and offtopic if you dare do that. But twitter's OK, he just replies to himself with as many accounts as he can and rack up the karma, since he gets modded down on sight whenever he posts with his original account (and that tells you a lot about his standing around here).

"Moderate the post, not the poster" is all well and good, except when you're posting as five different people. I don't see how difficult it is to figure out that westbake, gnutoo and Odder on this thread are the same person (and more on the way, no doubt).

Maybe I'll get me some sockpuppets and do the same. Who knows, maybe I'll be popular and cool. But this is just bizarre.