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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."
The vulnerabilities of the dams are the real problem, but for some reason the government prefers to lie about that. Most of these vulnerabilities are probably pretty obvious to an expert (and, yes, the Chinese have experts on damns and these can go to the US for vacation), so hiding these problems is pretty stupid in the first place.
Right, but we don't want no more liberal big gubmint!" And so the dams go unrepaired. As go the bridges. And waterways. And embankments. And highway offramps...
Every great many years something fails spectacularly, and a few dozen commuters get splashed into the river. See also Minneapolis... Then lip service is paid, asses are kissed, and in the end only the absolutely worst bridges are fixed, the rest simply get "back-burnered" until the next stimulus bill comes along. And millions of commuters drive over these roads and bridges every single day.
Have fun! I'm riding my bike.
Who did what now?
Something happens in Iran, initial reports point to USA
IT MUST BE THE USA
Something happens in US, initial reports point to China
IT CAN'T BE CHINA
I'm Canadian too and the 'us' the GP is talking about is the USA the alleged target of the hack, that part is quite obvious. However, I have to question that you really are Canadian. I can understand an American believing this BS about "the Chinese are after us," after all Americans get immersed in the "distrust and hate all aliens" doctrine right from childhood so they can't think straight. But us Canadians know better, the Chinese are one of our best trading partners, many of us have roots in China or have neighbours or colleagues who do, we know they're not after world domination and are on a steady path to opening up their country while USA is going the opposite way. So... are you really Canadian or an American spy clumsily pretending to be Canadian?