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China Denies Role In US Grid Hacks
Slatterz writes "The Chinese government is denying any involvement in the reported infiltration of US electric grid systems. Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu as saying that any sort of involvement from China in the incident 'doesn't exist at all.' The denial follows a report in the Wall Street Journal which claimed that agents from China and Russia along with several other countries had infiltrated the computer systems charged with managing electricity in the US and left behind software payloads which could be used to control or disable electric grids in the US."
Bruce Schneier is skeptical about the whole story.
If they are going to turn off the power while I'm trying to watch "Ow, My Balls" on Fox or if my government successfully gets me to believe that, I am going to vote for whoever will blow them back to the stone age.
Don't laugh. That's what the "war on terror" and now, this, are all about. We here in the U.S. need a bogie man! We need for someone to be the "bad guy" so that the government can "protect us" from them. And it's really easy to in a culture that is heavily inundated with religions that have a Zorastrianist view that everything is a struggle of "good" vs. "evil". And of course we're the "good guys", so they must be the "bad guys", right?
I, for one, wouldn't be surprised if the electrical grid weren't being inflitrated by CIA or NSA hackers.
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come on people, even fundamentalists only hate america because they don't produce anthing that can be bought by the ever-so-consumist typical american (and americans had the nasty habit of bombing fundamentalist cottages).
anyway, China needs american buyers, Russia needs american buyers, Europe, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia, Cingapure, S. Korea, all dependent of the mc crap junkies. There is a brazilian saying "you shouldn't spit on the dish you eat". My bet is that stands correct in this case, all the way.