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Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit
InfiniteZero writes "China has admitted for the first time that it had poured massive investment into the formation of a 30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors — a team supposedly trained to protect the People's Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks."
and I'm positive their cyber-commandos have been very, very offensive for a long time. It wouldn't surprise me if they haven't been working hand-in-glove with the North Korean counterparts as well.
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An adversary's Command & Control has always been a prime military target. Why should it be any different in an information age? The only thing that surprises me is the relatively small number of 30 (admitted) members in the unit. I'd bet even money that every single major government in the world has such a cyber unit and probably much larger (*cough* US *cough*) in scale.
Anybody else find it hilarious when governments try to make their "cyberwarfare" divisions sound badass with phrases like "30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors"?
An army needs supplies;
Organizing supplies (logistics) gets very complicated, and needs IT infrastructure;
Disabling an opposing army's supply lines is a proved war strategy;
Enemies could damage the IT infrastructure, thereby endangering the supply lines;
In a conflict, enemies will try to damage the army's IT infrastructure;
An army needs people who can protect its IT infrastructure and damage the enemy's.
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what could be more 'cyber' than that?
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... their regular commandos. Except they have tape wrapped around the bridge of their night vision goggles.
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True...and we'd never lie about how Patriot Act usurps basic constitutional rights. Ever nation's politics has its gray areas, no denying.
I was telling everyone who didn't run away fast enough back in the seventies that the only logical explanation for Nuclear Weapons (I lived in Livermore) was to scam the taxpayer, and when we got into the next war we'd have to start from scratch supplying our boys with tools that they could actually use. Also I said that the Russians were desperately behind, and truly fearful of our imperialist intentions, and the people to watch out for were those inscrutable Chinese. I'm pretty sure we should shut down our offshore military and let the Chinese secure the "stability" of the Mideast. Let them go broke for a change, while we invest the savings into modern energy technology. YMMV (Heck, I hear the Europeans get all that oil, let them subsidise it.)
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
I'm pretty sure we should shut down our offshore military and let the Chinese secure the "stability" of the Mideast.
I don't claim to be an expert on global military strategy, but in the past, every time we've done this and pursued an isolationist policy, the world has come right back knocking on our door with a war that can't be refused. Starting from the war of 1812 (we tried to be neutral, but the British kept capturing our ships), up until WW2.
Add to that, in the lead up to WW2, if someone had put a little expense into stopping Germany right when they were starting out, it would have been nothing. Instead everyone pursued their isolationist policies until it grew into an expensive, deadly, unignorable problem.
Maybe times are different now, but it is clearly a good idea sometimes to pay a small expense now to avoid a bigger pain later (and saying that, I was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning).
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The attack on RSA, then Lockheed Martin was too long term and risky for any of the Organized Crime hacking groups. It was definitely a government. The only ones that can capitalize on the return are the Chinese. Well, I suppose the French might be an extremely unlikely 2nd place.
So, they hacked Lockheed, so they could make better attack aircraft, so they could protect the PLA from outside assault on its networks. Like hell. About the same time the attack on Lockheed went down, I noticed they were scanning for BGP. First time I've seen BGP scanning in years. It all looks offensive to me.
This is news? Isn't this the same as the US admitting the existence of Delta Force, Seal Team 6, or Area 51? I mean really?
/., it's too early to be wasting my time on this...
Rah, rah, the Chinese have a "computer commando" unit... big freaking deal. A "blue" team the same as a US "red" team? Great, so it's a pen-test team, maybe with other duties. Like the US doesn't have anything like that in the government or private sectors...
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