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Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we're-still-number-one-at-this dept.

suraj.sun writes "Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft."

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  1. FUD by the DoD by kubitus · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    the media are stremed, if not flooded with more and more messages that the bad bad guys are attacking the poor porr USA with their lousy OS with NSA backdoors, trojans, Echelon etc..

    Should I lol or weep?

    Problem is the average media consumer will swallow the bait with tackle and all!

    Power grid threatened by hackers - most likely from China *g*

    Poor ol Dalai Lama's Windozw PC infiltrated *g*

    Whats going on? Obama tolling up for a big War?:

  2. Re:A project for our worst enemies by Divebus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now can we stop using Windows?

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    Most of the stuff on /. won't survive first contact with facts.