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Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project
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."
I thought I was downloading the latest Windows 7 beta candidate
boy is my face red.
(ob: what's that knock on my door, I'll be *NO CARRIER*)
(cue spy mike in the cafeteria a few days ago)
"Bob, is it me or is the network reeeeally slow again t'day?"
"Yeah, wonder what the goons in IT are pissin' with today. Wish they'd tell us that before they start rewiring everything."
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why are these sensitive systems connected to the public internet. Either directly or indirectly, whose bright idea was it? If you need a computer in the lab connected to the internet, fine, just keep the infrastructure seperate.
You see, they weren't actually. They were on a private network but they were able to siphon off data by hanging a bucket off of the network cable and cutting a hole in it. The bits fell into the bucket, and the rest is history...
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
Wait..I'm confused. The Internet is a series of buckets? What if the siphon tube gets clogged?
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2009, the year of the open source Jet Fighter.
Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.
No, it's a series of tubes that can be siphoned off into a bucket. Look, kid, you're asking questions that are way above your head here...
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
There was an interesting example of this posted on Wikileaks a year or so ago, of an American nuclear bomb design obtained from the Russians, which contained a few minor and difficult-to-find design flaws that would have prevented the bomb from actually working if it had been built along those lines.
So THAT'S why my nuclear bomb didn't work ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Now, I sit down in my home in China, run some scripts, hack a US government computer, brag to my friends, etc.... Someone from the US government calls... wait a minute, no they didn't. No one even cared. But lets pretend they did care and they called some official in China and told them what was going on... *LAUGHTER AND LOTS OF POINTING* from the Chinese side.
I sit down in my home in Spain, run some scripts, hack a US government computer, brag to my friends, etc.... Someone from the spanish government takes a sip from his third coffee of the morning while vaguely rememorating the last time he did some work, many years before. Then, he decides it's a perfect day to go home before noon and leaves.
It doesn't matter if the data is on the Internet. No matter how well you protect your data there always are rogue agents on the roster who have access to everything and can operate undetected for a long period of time.
I'm not kidding. I have my sources. I watch 24 after all.
Yeah, that's what happens when you have a, "shiny bomb-casing filled with used pinball machine parts."
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Try switching to Comcast(TM)! Their advanced security features would have detected this breach and put a stop to it after only a mere 250G was transferred. It's Comcastic(TM)!
(I just hope the spies didn't discover the fighter's only weakness, a small thermal exhaust port...)