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Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker
Velcroman1 writes "The House Intelligence Committee is warning that 'time is running out' before the next major cyberattack: The Russians, Iranians, Chinese, and others are likely already on your computer. 'You have criminal organizations trying to get into your personal computer and steal your personal stuff. And by the way, the Chinese are probably on your computer, the Russians are probably on your personal computer, the Iranians are already there,' House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R.-MI) said. 'They're trying to steal things that they think are valuable or use your computer to help them steal from someone else,' he said. 'That's a real problem.'"
I'm wearing my trusty tin-foil hat!
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just to make sure they aren't and for your own protection.....
The linked article says it all. Nothing but more fearmongering from Fox News, and promotion of CISPA. Someone needs to have their editor's permissions revoked. oh wait....
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers and really do not care.
It always brings me back to images of windows users with 20 different toolbars loaded in to IE.
banging his wardrum. this is the same asshole who thought iraq was trying to kill us all. how'd that turn out for ya mike? http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17707705/39591107
Good people go to bed earlier.
It could be worse. What if they started flying remote controlled drones around the world killing people with impunity?
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
1999 called
Did you warn them about 9/11?