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White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack
New submitter clam666 writes "White House sources partly confirmed that U.S. government computers — reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands — were breached by Chinese hackers. From the article: 'The attempted hack used 'spear phishing,' in which an attacker sends an email to a specific target that uses familiar phrases in hopes that the recipient will follow links or download attachments that unleash the hacker's malware. None of the White House's secure, classified computer systems were affected, said the official, who reached out to POLITICO after the Free Beacon story appeared — without having been asked for comment. Nor had there been any attempted breach of a classified system, according to the official.'"
.... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!
You are NOT allowed to download and/or trade music/pr0n.
Obligatory: Would you like to play a game of thermonuclear warfare?
Next up, petitioning the White House to find out why the fuck nuclear control systems are on the internet ...
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How can the attack include military systems used for nuclear commands, yet not include any secure classified systems?
When they made a list of which government systems should be secured, they decided to leave the nukes off that list?!
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I call right-wing partisan beatup.
Stupid talking point for dumb people, who don't realize that in real life, a crime can't be solve in 40 minutes, like on CSI: Miami.
...why does hacking is equated to phishing? Also, who designs a system like that? Right credentials.. that is all it takes,,
Backing up my suspicions for the last 2+ years:
How does the US know the actual nationality of the hackers and not just their end-proxy?
The US have been trying to insinuate a cyber-war for years now, and never said how they know who's behind it (if you said the *ATTACK* came from China, fair enough - to say it ORIGINATED there is more of a stretch, and to say it was Chinese hackers is just ludicrous).
Of course we have suspicions and think we might know who's behind it and who owns the net-blocks, but what a wonderful way to discredit a nation and put the blame on someone else when you want to cyber-attack the US - just proxy through China and start WW3 when the US relatiates.
Really, US? How do you *KNOW*? On the scale that you can confidently state the Chinese "attacked" you (and coupled with your statements that cyber-attacks could be considered acts of war?)? You're REALLY that sure it was China that did it? That you can announce on the news that it was the country itself?
Or do you just want to start a war with China for some reason?
Proof positive the dumbest people on the planet work for government.
Who in this day and age opens email from people or companies they haven't first contacted.
Who in this day and age clicks on a URL they don't know that arrives in an email from someone they don't know.
WHen Obama first arrived in the whitehouse in 2009 the computers still had floppy drives and Exchange was down 25% of the time!
I highly doubt even with the new CIO Obama quickly hired to fix this that the whitehouse has any real security if the infrastructure was that poor? That scares me more than the president not receiving his email. I could imagine all the printers, servers, routers, and everything being rootkitted just lke the Chamber of Commerce was where even the thermastat sent data to Chinese IP addresses.
First off, CSI Miami is 42 minutes long.
Second, the Libyan President went on TV 1 week after the attack and said it was a terrorist attack. With the enormous intelligence budget we give to all the various Three-Letter Agencies, the U.S. should have known before a fledgling country with no intelligence agencies.
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They aren't even on siprnet.
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October Surprise. Or a lame attempt at one.
Also, have fun reading the ridiculous comments on the Politico site.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
White House sources partly confirmed that U.S. government computers ...including systems used by the military for nuclear commands, were breached by Chinese hackers.
I'm speechless. May heads roll!
Excuses excuses yet had this happened to a Republican executive you know exactly how you would be responding to it. Your double standards are showing leftist.
FYI Bill Gertz is a very credible reporter, benjfowler, not so much.
How do they know the phishing emails were sent by Chinese hackers? Are they just using the IP address of where the email originated to determine the nationality of the hackers?
And it took people like you almost no time at all to turn the murder of four people who died in the service of their country into a prop for an absurd smear campaign.
Stupid talking point for dumb people, who don't realize that in real life, a crime can't be solve in 40 minutes, like on CSI: Miami.
It took me less than a minute to realize a coordinated attack on an embassy is not "spontaneous". If anything, it should be easier to determine the Embassy attack was "terrorism" (or at least coordinated and planned) than a Chinese hacker spearfished a certain person on a certain system at a certain time. Just because you stick your head in the sand and ignore warning signs of attack and indicators of planning, it doesn't mean the attack was spontaneous. Even during deployment in Iraq, I saw sugarcoating of events... I see through that bullshit. The Embassy attack was planned, plain and simple. It was well executed. A mob doesn't have that coordination.
Of course.
First, there's a "smoking gun" in the breach. The attack's general incoming direction can easily be traced to china, which at least indicates a proxy's sitting there. That gives China an opportunity to cooperate (if it really wasn't the government, or at least if they have a scapegoat handy), leading to some diplomatic goodwill and good PR all around. In an assassination, the evidence takes far longer to work out and get a general direction from, and accusing another country of assassination is a much more serious accusation, that can't be spun into happy cooperation as easily.
Then there's the target. An unclassified system being breached doesn't really matter, so even without any definite culprit or even many facts, the news can be released without too much worry. For an assassination, everyone involved in the investigation will immediately be inundated with requests for more information, taking precious time away from the investigation itself.
Less need for careful tact means the news can be released faster. This principle is unrelated to what politicians are in charge.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
They were able to save us from doom this time, but we might not be so lucky the next time.... ... unless we give them all of our privacy rights and billions of dollars.
So tell me, how many years did you spend "serving your country"?
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Definitely some interesting times ahead as the US's knee jerk SPREAD PEACE LOVE AND DEMOCRACY WITH BOMBS response meets the reality of that whole starting a war in Asia thing.
I'll bet appropriations for cyber security have a lot less trouble passing in the next budget session.
It's not so tough to look inside a payload and scoop out an address and say: oh look! Chinese! But that's not necessarily where the original attackers are from: they are from anywhere, but the address was in a Chinese CIDR block somewhere, on a system that may or may not have been externally controlled from anywhere in the world.
Politically, however, the finger was pointed at China. Whether it was pointed correctly or not isn't really known. For now, however, if you believe the WH, then it's Chinese. But Chinese "patriots" or Chinese military or Chinese officials or who? No mention is made. Could be someone over-stoked on caffeine at an all-night CyberCafe for all we know.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
The web page is slow, but the phish is patient.
If you read TFA "Soy sauce has been found all over port 21 and a Beijing duck was stuck on the firewall".
Are you still under the delusion that the Politicians for the US Government or any of the 3 letter agencies really give a shit about the USA, or the people that live in the USA?
For anyone under this delusion, I can only ask you to look around. I'm not claiming that everyone working for these agencies is bad mind you, most I consider people that just want to do a job and get a pay check. The people running the shows however, are very bad people. I'm sure many people working at these agencies realize this, but fear opening their mouths for obvious reasons. We all saw what happened with a whistle blower in CA right? I mean, their house was raided, father was left to die having a heart attack. Of course their house was ransacked costing them money, they lost their job, and had to pay a fortune in legal fees. That's one of the few stories that made it to the public, and not an isolated incident.
Currently, we are pretty fucked. Way to many people sleeping through what's been going on, and those that are awake prefer complacency to action.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Attribution.
Disclaimer: I am a Navy Information Warfare Officer.
First, it's important to note that the White House didn't confirm the suspected source. It was anonymous officials who said this appeared to originate "from China" -- take that as you will.
As you point out, an attack may appear to come from a particular (set of) IP address(es), network(s), or source(s). An attack may have a certain profile, or share a profile with other attacks. An attack may have an assumed motivation based on its target. The attacker(s) may even wish to make it appear that the attack is originating elsewhere.
Even if the "source" is established, is it a nation-state? Hacktivists? Nationalist hackers acting on behalf of government or at the government's explicit or implicit direction? Transnational actors? None of the above?
No one wants to "start a war" with China, but the error in balancing the cyber threat against the "hype" is assuming that all threats are bogus, or must be the result of hawks looking for neverending war, excuses to begin/escalate the next "Cold War", and similar. The threat from China is very real, long-established, and well-understood for anyone who cares to look. It has been discussed thoroughly, even for the Chinese, in their own strategic literature, and there are very public examples of China's offensive cyber capabilities. China's investment in offensive cyber capabilities comes because of the understanding that dominance of the information realm will essentially allow China to skip large chunks of military modernization and still be highly effective in any conflict with the United States.
Think of it this way: it's now assumed that the Stuxnet/Duqu/Flame family were created by the US and/or Israel. (Keep in mind that even overt admissions prove nothing, and can be self-serving...) Even before the books and articles about OLYMPIC GAMES, attribution was assumed because of the target and because of snippets of clues in the code. In general, why is that assumption any more or less valid than this? Is it because some are more inclined to believe that of course the US engages in cyber warfare; but any cyber attacks against us are suspect.
Of course, there are those who will assume that indications of any cyber attack will always be a "false flag" and/or used by those with ulterior motives who want war. It can't possibly be that there are aggressors who indeed want to attack the US, and who greatly benefit from the odd proclivity of those in free societies to see the enemy as their own government, while overlooking the actual adversary. Sun Tzu would be beaming.
Background:
Chinese Insider Offers Rare Glimpse of U.S.-China Frictions
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/world/asia/chinese-insider-offers-rare-glimpse-of-us-china-frictions.html?_r=1
"The senior leadership of the Chinese government increasingly views the competition between the United States and China as a zero-sum game, with China the likely long-range winner if the American economy and domestic political system continue to stumble, according to an influential Chinese policy analyst. China views the United States as a declining power, but at the same time believes that Washington is trying to fight back to undermine, and even disrupt, the economic and military growth that point to China’s becoming the world’s most powerful country."
China is on track to exceed US military spending in real dollars by 2025
http://www.economist.com/node/21542155
China’s military rise
http://www.economist.com/node/21552212
The dragon’s new teeth: A rare look inside the world’s biggest military expansion
http://www.economist.com/node/21552193
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Just because the attack came from someone in China doesn't mean China is attacking the USA, the headline implies that.
If some hacker in US attacks a govt computer in another country the headline would not be "US Cyberattacks Country X"
This just shows US Chinese paranoia
Of course. That was a point I made in my second paragraph. Now China can step up and help, offering some token gesture of cooperation, like extracting/forging logs pointing in some other direction. This is a chance for diplomatic small-talk, where a little good-faith effort on a task that's meaningless in the long run can help hold off the prospect of an upcoming war with China.
China also has the opportunity to take this flimsy accusation as a grave insult, so they could start rattling sabers and head closer to war... but then they look like aggressors just waiting for an excuse to pick a fight.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
...attack the messenger. Brilliant.
I wonder if: the WH picks up a phone and calls somebody in the Chinese Embassy or straight to the right contact and says: yo, is this yours? Do you realize we interpret these things as an act of war?
Or does this online Spy Vs Spy game continue until something really evil happens?
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Then how do you explain the White House jumping to the conclusion that it was all caused over a video instead of waiting for the results of said investigation?
There were no reported protests in Libya, unless you mean guys with mortars and heavy machine guns were just "protesting". There's "doing an investigation" and then there is dissembling known facts, like the people attacking used heavy weapons and indirect fire (mortars), that there was no protest, and that it was obviously a military attack and not a protest that just got out of control. But don't let reality dissuade you from what the "most transparent and honest administration ever" says.
But I see your point about dumb people.
Thanks for them though, I have "interests" in this area's why!
* One of the dumbest things we've also done (in a way, it does have a "good side", as do ALL 'hack/crack' attempts (yes, I do believe in making lemonade out of lemons))?
When Microsoft licensed out the sourcecode to Chinese educational institutions (as well as other nations). This can be a real "double-edged sword" for step-tracing & finding potential 'bugs' to exploit.
Then again, as I noted above? Once they're exposed in these "cyber attacks", it's 1 time that "trickledown" thinking, works - since you can BET that MS or other OS makers will patch for it, once it's discovered + used.
(The ones that spook me most? The ones you DON'T know about & haven't been exposed...)
I've met & worked with Chinese programmers since 1994 here & there in both academia, AND in professional environs: They're as good as anyone else is, & quite clever!
APK
P.S.=> Plus, we both noted Sun-Tzu in our posts as well, so, I had to reply (good read from you, must be an INTERESTING job you have there)...
... apk
Oh right, because I'm sure the Obama administration is just wailing over their lax security or that CNN's scoop on the amabassador's journal showed that he had been requesting security upgrades for some time? If people don't hold the white house accountable for their abject incompetence, then why should the white house care? I mean it was Obama, not his detractors, who so eloquently stated that the murder of 4 Americans was a mere "bump in the road" for Libyan/US relations. How's that for callous and uncaring?
God Doman MONGORIANS!!! Why they gotta break my SHEEETY FIREWAWL!!!!
There are supposed to be secure channels for having informal diplomatic discussions that are kept private, where a conversation like the former could take place, but I suspect that diplomats are a bit wary of making "private" comments these days. That leaves only the subtle dance of public politics, where the latter is likely.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
And it starts up again. The propaganda about how unsafe cyberspace is from other countries, and therefor we should accept and want our government to have more authority, more power over how it functions. We are supposed to like them having all kinds of additional power, because its for our own good.
BULL!
And we will NOT TOLERATE it.
The next time the US is attacked by a nation - in the sense of Dec 7, 1941, it will go down like this outline:
1. Cyber attack knocking out our infrastructure and parts of our military and government.
2. My fellow Americans run around like the scared sheep that they are.
3. Dorks with AR-15 with the M-4 conversion kits start running around shooting people to "protect" everyone. The cops hide.
3. Attacker sends over wave after wave of really cheap aircraft knocking out all the high tech planes like the f-22 and everything else.
4. They win.
As opposed to what, serving yourself and now trying to play the victim?
First off, CSI Miami is 42 minutes long.
Second, the Libyan President went on TV 1 week after the attack and said it was a terrorist attack. With the enormous intelligence budget we give to all the various Three-Letter Agencies, the U.S. should have known before a fledgling country with no intelligence agencies.
Oh yeah. Just like they did on September 10, 2001.
There's a country full of milling militias, any one (or more) which might seize an opportunity in a condition of general unrest. There's the possibility that one single militia had one single pre-prepared plan that they could roll out. There's the possibility that Al-Qaeda had a plan already set up and scheduled. Then again, there's a load of politically-based sensationalism a certain so-called "News" network wants to promote, which is basically trying to convince us that Osama, er, "Usama" bin Ladin personally led a wave of jihadis in a grand, pre-planned anniversary wave of jihadis - but only in one of the several unsettled countries making noise at that time.
Since when do we blindly believe what politicians say? Especially other people's politicians?
OK, I'm keeping an open mind. It's possible that this really was all an al-Qaeda plot. But I'd rather wait until the evidence was all collected, sifted and cross-checked. There's no ticking bomb here, and I'd really rather not have another pants-wetting rush to find ways to curtail our freedom just because some gang broke in and committed atrocities again.
You made a mistake, it took 2 weeks to accuse the right party instead of blaming our free speech, some corny movie that would struggle to be B quality and the awesome tolerance other cultures have for ours.
Madeleine Albright was just in Ohio campaigning for Obama, and she said it's a difficult situation to understand and that Romney was wrong in criticizing the White House because it takes time and investigation to determine what happened. I hoping someone would ask "why was they speaking about it before having those crucial facts then?" but the topic didn't allow questions.
Latest update to the situation room:
These were from one Uighur Muslims with a slight limp in China (obvious from scrutinizing at the IP address by our experts).
Of course Islam absolves the perpetrator from guilt especially if done in response to endless western insult of the Prophet Muhammad.
He's just pissed because this is one thing they cannot blame on Bush. Personally, I'm getting sick and tired of always hearing, "I may not be good, but I'm not bush and look what he did".
In unrelated news: a recently de-throned Nigerian prince has acquired US missile codes, along with "$15.000.000 USD".
Wow... HOW tight is your tinfoil hat?
Wow, that sounds bad.
Wait, so there are only a couple ways that these could both be claimed:
1. Someone is lying
2. Our gov't is actually dumb enough to not classify & secure systems used by the military for nuclear commands
3. Someone is lying
I'm guessing it's either 1 or 3.
I agree with the GP.
I stubbed my toe on my kitchen table this morning. Are you claiming that wasn't a right-wing partisan beatup?
What victim? The only victims are the 4 people who died. They died after 6 hours of fighting. There's an entire Brigade stationed in Italy, a few hours flight away. Where were the Marines to stage a rescue? Those 4 men died because of the administrations failures. We should have reminded the residents of Libya why the Marine Corps Song start with "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."
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Shame on you samzenpus. The white house has only confirmed that an unclassified computer has been hacked. Not one capable of nuclear commands, not that it was a Chinese attack.
Anyone else do a double take while reading summary?
"White House sources partly confirmed that U.S. government computers — reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands — were breached by Chinese hackers."
Check. Got it.
"Nor had there been any attempted breach of a classified system, according to the official.'"
Chinese breach nuke system, no classified systems were breached, so nuke systems aren't classified....?
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It was Iran behind the cyber attack. Troops en route, war declared.
China is the enemy.
Politically, however, the finger was pointed at China.
Technically, the finger should be pointed at Microsoft.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Oh please! The DoD has been aware since, I don't know, the 1980s that anything important is not hooked up the public internet. I imagine that if they've been following their own doctrine, it's a treasonous offense to put any material not for public consumption on an internet-accessible machine, whether or not they think it's publicly accessible. Hell, it's been a long standing joke in the hacker / cracker communities -> "So tell me again, PH3@RMe, how you hacked a FBI / CIA / DoD server and got access to some uber-elite secret files" with full knowledge that nothing important is kept on those servers, and defacing the website (or serving up pr0n / warez on the FTP) is simply for bragging rights.
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the web servers for many of these organizations lacked a hard drive, and booted purely from a burned DVD. Just reboot the machine whenever the checksums on the files change.
I am John Hurt.
With the amount of US Debt that China holds, Obama will say nothing and hope this goes away. At any other time and with any other Administration, we would be floating 2 carrier groups into the Sea of Japan and preventing any Chinese trade vessels from docking at our ports.
They are nothing without the American consumer.
Of course. That was a point I made in my second paragraph. Now China can step up and help, offering some token gesture of cooperation, like extracting/forging logs pointing in some other direction.
This was a state acting, as cyber criminals likely don't care about nuclear delivery infrastructure. Assuming that I am a black hat in the official service of state intelligence attempting to compromise highly sensitive information, I am going to work through compromised foreign proxies ("I'm behind 7 proxies!"), burning one or more of them after each use, via drive wipes and deliberate infection with destructive viruses.
It seems weird that you would try something this daring directly from your home soil. It would be a great way to frame China for your misbehavior though, and throw the US off your scent.
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Seriously. If the murder 3000+ Americans didn't put a dent in Saudi-US relations, it's pretty stupid of Obama to even notice this minor hiccup.
It's human nature to "want more", but, when is enough, enough? I feel that is what causes it. How so though??
Well, think about U.S. History - We had the depression era, the wars (WW I, II, Korea): With Germany in largely ruin, we had NO manufacturing competition really!
That made for a FAT & HAPPY populace, the "golden age" of America & all that... which is great for the USA! However, there's a downside:
"Spare the rod, spoil the child"
I don't mean that in "corporal punishment" but rather when say, your parents are doing well for themselves AND YOU? They "over-indulge" & spoil you.
Going back to the above in "wanting more" now based on that? I'd think you SEE where it leads, eventually!
(To corrupt children becoming corrupt adults who basically have it all, but want more, & usually that goes past just money, but rather to controlling power being their "want")
I mean... hey, look @ rich folks kids like Paris Hilton for example: The woman HAS money, born into millions... but, obviously, she wanted FAME too ( & with that kind of Ca$h? You can buy PLENTY of press-time & agents to promote you into said "fame")
APK
P.S.=> In the end, I agree, since history shows us that time & again (makes me wonder about the human race, thank goodness we have enough SENSE as well as cowardice actually too, to avoid utter total destruction... @ least SO far! Be a damned shame to "blow it all up", since I feel that we've accomplished a HELL OF A LOT being only what? 100 generations out of cave-dwelling?)
... apk
I wonder if: the WH picks up a phone and calls somebody in the Chinese Embassy or straight to the right contact and says: yo, is this yours? Do you realize we interpret these things as an act of war?
US Diplomat: We have found out that there are attempts to gain access to US secure systems coming from Chinese controlled IP addresses. We take offense at this activity, and request that you cease immediately.
....And both sides keep hacking.
China Diplomat: The Peoples Republic abhor illegal and immoral activity, and in now way condone such behavior. While we are on the topic, we have discovered similar attacks on our systems coming from US controlled addresses.
US Diplomat: It is not the policy of the US to engage in clandestine cyber attacks on state controlled computer systems. We do not condone any such action.
China Diplomat: Excellent, we are in agreement then!
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after the Free Bacon story appeared
Which is it, shortage or surplus??
So true- I mean, any other president / administration would have done the same things Cheney / Bush did, no?
On the other hand, you're an asshole.
I'm no fan of Obama, but what the Bush administration "accomplished" during it's 2 terms was, in it's totality, unprecedented in the history of the US. The disasters were pretty much moving along on rails for whomever took over after Bush. I don't believe there was a way -any- administration could have removed banker influence in the aftermath of the collapse.
HEY- Fox is on...what are you wasting your time here for?
Seriously. If the murder 3000+ Americans didn't put a dent in Saudi-US relations...
You're correct- It didn't put a dent in the relations the US has with a certain group of Saudis that hold power in their nation.
The ties of the powerful to any particular nation have been fading for a while now. The small groups in each wealthy nation across the world, groups that hold much of the assets and power, identify more with each other than their birth nations.
Remember the phrase "Any problem in computer science may be solved with another layer of abstraction"? Think of these groups of ridiculously wealthy and powerful people as a layer of abstraction placed above the nations of the world- In my opinion, the interactions between many nations that exist under this abstraction are largely attempts at scripted drama, random aberrations, or corrective actions brought about to manage those not yet aligned to the majority's interests.
I don't think it's any of this "New World Order" crap- It's just what people do, all the time: Those of similar socioeconomic position and means, with similar outlooks on how society should work, tend to clump together to their mutual benefit. I hang out with my neighbors, I belong to an investment group of similarly minded co-workers and friends that exist in roughly the same socioeconomic plane. If someone either fabulously wealthy or very poor were to join this group, it wouldn't work out very well.
I believe some of the extremely rich and powerful take this to a higher level in that they want to shape society to fit their own views, but this is the same principle writ large. I'm not trying to label this negatively or positively in regards to ethics or morality, just summarizing what I believe I have observed.
Whether or not it's the Chinese, a thought comes to mind: If there's no way you can best a potential future enemy on a battlefield, why not take all the time you have available until some potential conflict kicks off, to lay the groundwork for asymmetric warfare? Hell, I would.
Lots and lots of little bits at a time.
The US government making up shit as an excuse to blame another country and give us an excuse to invade, or act like dicks, or blow off some obligation to them or something. More than likely though this is a scare tactic used so when they block US internet access to chinas site later and get more funding for some cyber security division they want to create for a couple billion dollars.
The corruption is at worst a symptom of a larger problem. China appears to be suffering from the same problems experienced by Japan on its way to surpassing the US as an economic superpower. Now, that didn't happen, did it? Japan faltered because for the longest time Japan was virtually a one-party state. Now look at that other "great" one-party state, the Soviet Union.
There are otther factors of course, such as Japan's graying population, a problem that China is also facing because of its ill-conceived one-child policy. But even minor, public policy differences produce an incentive to search for solutions different from the accepted orthodoxy.
Monopolies aren't good, whether it's a company or a state party. China most likely wont' surpass the US as a superpower. Both may well go into a state of decline and be surpassed a third country with enough sense not to nurture economic or political monopolies that breed both corruption and stagnation.
Where they trying to cut fins off? Fuckers
A "Nuclear command" that is a unit that has a nuclear capability... so hacking into the airman's computers on say: the 91st Missile Wing would only reveal what YouTube videos are being watched... all the nuclear launch code stuff isn't linked into the world wide web at all... they even have really draconian restrictions on wifi being in the LCCs and LFs etc.
I'm just wondering if that's possible, not going to do it because I don't know how to hack, but in theory, why would it be illegal?
Fuck the Chinese cocksuckers. Please, let's just nuke 'em back to the stone age while we still can.
In my mind's eye I picture a young Tom Hanks delivering these lines with great passion: "Holy crap, folks, the reported breach was a spearphishing EMAIL. This wasn't HACKING, it was just a goddamned EMAIL. You can slice it any way you want to, but there is no way on God's green earth that the delivery of a properly addressed email is a SECURITY BREACH."
Plus the security awareness program for whoever got the malware-laden missive is clearly working properly because no one opened the attachment. This article was just Obama-administration-baiting by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, and is chock-full of scary terms clearly not entirely understood by the so-called journalists writing it.
that the intelligence services actually wanted to analyze the data and question people before making a conclusion?
Or maybe... it's aliens! Get the tinfoil hat, quick!!!
We must do "shock and awe" style denial of service attacks on Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines and everyone else around China, but not China itself.
INSCOM always wants to know. And they know how to make General's life miserable or how to put him into a Crackistan shithole full of Malaria and AK47s.
just make the codes 111111. Curtis LeMad did exactly that. Word of mouth authorizes.
Do not trust what the White House says about cyber attacks from China; this is just a precursor to justify another potential war as the United States of America did not get their own way at the recent UN meeting! and if you want to see Julian Assange's footage you can download it from http://www.rt.com
I feel that is enough to say for the time being.