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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams
coolnumbr12 writes "Chinese hackers have infiltrated a sensitive U.S. Army database that contains information about the vulnerabilities of thousands of dams located throughout the United States. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams (NID) has raised concerns that information gathered in the hack could help China carry out a cyber-attack on the national electrical power grid."
You clearly dont own a server. There are always IPs belonging to China poking and prodding your server. Then when you report it, they dont respond at all, and the IP is never AUP'd. So yes... it was probably f'ing China.
Yeah, because the Chinese have bases in countries all over the world...
The People's Republic of China, A.K.A. communist China, has a growing number of military bases and access to facilities around the world. The Chinese fleet has been participating in anti-piracy actions around Somalia, giving them experience in extended naval deployments. The Chinese navy is planning to build something like four aircraft carriers and is currently flying aircraft off their first one that they are bringing into operation now after learning much from the Brazilian navy. Chinese special forces have been training the military in Venezuela. The Chinese are active in Africa.
The Chinese have also been bullying many of their neighbors, laying claim to distant islands and extensive land areas. Why don't you ask the Indians what they think of China's behavior, they are forming several new airborne infantry units to help deal with the threat? Or the Japanese, who are suffering a growing number of incursions by Chinese aircraft and sea vessels? Of perhaps the Philippines, which is seeing Chinese territory grabs on their doorstep?
No, it's the Chinese who are spending themselves into oblivion on weapons of war... Oh, wait, that's us again.
US military spending has recently generally been between 4% to 5% of GDP, well below historic levels. The army and navy and rumps of what they were at the end of the Cold War. Spending on social welfare programs is several times the military budget and is continuing to grow, and will grow for decades to come. It is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, now joined by Obamacare which really starts kicking in this year, that will bankrupt the US, not the military spending.
I'm afraid you don't know what you are talking about there.
We spend more on our military than the next 13 nations combined
A large part of that is personnel costs. The US has an all volunteer military that pays its members a salary competitive with the civilian sector unlike many other major nations that use conscription to fill their armies. An American corporal in the Army or Marines makes about what a Chinese general makes per month. I'm sure you can figure the impact of that out. Same thing applies to weapons purchases. Maybe you've heard that Chinese engineering staff and factory labor is cheaper than American?
On the other hand pretty much all European countries allied with the United States spend less than they should by treaty goals. As a result they had a hard time with the intervention in Libya without American assistance.
If it makes you feel better the Chinese are upping their military budget by 10.7% this year.
(but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.)
The US throws large amounts of money at education. The problem isn't with how much money, but what it is spent on, like growing numbers of administrators. There are also social factors that come into play that the education budget itself can't fix. The teachers unions don't help much either.
You don't really have this right either.
I dunno, perhaps if we moved from offense to defense, these things wouldn't be issues?
If platitudes could solve things they wouldn't be issues either.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell