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Chinese Hackers Targeting NYPD Computers
Mike writes "A network of hackers, most based in China, have been making up to 70,000 attempts a day to break into the NYPD's computer system, the city's Commissioner, Raymond Kelly, revealed Wednesday. Kelly suggested that 'perhaps it is because of the NYPD's reach into the international arena' that they are being targeted for computer hacking 'in much the way the Pentagon has been.' The hackers are apparently using a botnet to make up to 5,000 attempts a day at various unsecured portals into the NYPD's files. China's foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang denied involvement in computer espionage. 'Some people outside of China are bent on fabricating lies of so-called Chinese computer spies,' he said last month. The obvious question is, why are the Chinese so interested in the NYPD computer network?"
Guantanamo stays open... Hey, you got a Bush Third Term after all!
Umm, I haven't been known as Obama's biggest fan of late but this remark is simply unfair. Gitmo is going to be closed. What's your problem? The fact that it isn't being closed overnight? What do you do with everybody who is there? Release them all? Bring them all to the US? Or do you take the time to make a careful review of those being held there, rather than imposing one blanket solution on everybody just so you can close the facility faster?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Sadly you're wrong. I happen to be one of those people that believes Bush did everything he could to keep us safe, that Gitmo was a good thing, and that water boarding fuckers that want to blow up our buildings is a good thing too. Unfortunately, the current administration thinks that we're just gonna love on all our enemies and they'll just sit down with us a break out into kumbiya. He doesn't seem to understand that no matter how much you help some people they are going to spit in your face because of who they've made you up to be in their own minds. The president of Iran doesn't seem to really think much of Obama. Neither does Russia, or even Chavez (although he'll smile, shake hands, and give him a book on the benefits of being a leftist asshat to promote his own agenda). Bush did overlook a whole host of domestic issues, and that pisses me off, but then he was dealing with a bunch of foreign morons loosely organized and hell bent on causing death and destruction.
No this is not Bush's 3rd term. It's going to be far worse.
Nobody really cares about gitmo, there's at least a dozen secret U.S. prisons just like gitmo only not internationally infamous.
Get back to me when the US (or any nation) eliminates all its secret prisons. Then explain to me why you believe 'em.
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