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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. Oops, sorry...that was me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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*)

    1. Re:Oops, sorry...that was me by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 5, Funny

      Note to self - do not end *NO CARRIER* joke with a closing parenthesis

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  2. Open source. by dtml-try+MyNick · · Score: 5, Funny

    2009, the year of the open source Jet Fighter.

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  3. Re:Only a few terabytes? by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 ;)

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