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Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009
angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, the yearly increase will be around 60 percent. The full report (PDF) is available online."
But that is lost money. US spends that in Iraq and makes profit by taking the oil. Oh, you though they went there for some other reason?
And China doesn't even need to play any of this cyber attacks game with US. Like a fellow Slashdotter said; "Hello, my name is China and I wish to liquidate all my US Treasury Bonds." That is even more true with the current economy. Interestingly that doesn't affect China or Russia so much because they're living on more realistic costs - US lives with debt and it can't go on forever.
The minute China asks to pay back the debt US is fucked. If they pay that trillions of dollars, economy will collapse like never before. If they don't, no one will loan money anymore and economy will collapse because the nation has been living on loaned money to sustain that style.
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