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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."
inb4 war with china also inb4 the US gets wtfpwnt by china
Yes. It's quite clever. MS hires a bunch of long haired hippies to rant and rave about Linux and vaguely mention insecure operating systems (notice that they didn't mention any names). Soon government types will get tired of hearing the rants, especially if they get associated with terrorists or communists (notice how they chose Bastile Linux, which is clearly playing on the US's odd aversion to anything coming out of France). A few well placed reports on how All American MS Windows is "more secure" than this foreign based, communist/terrorist Linux, and Boom! Government sales out the YinYang.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Our congress is the most inept, pathetic, and treasonous part of our government. Nearly as bad as Dick Cheney himself. Attacking us there is really like hitting below the belt. WTF?
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