Posted on 04/03/2010 3:27:35 AM PDT by Scanian
Google's woes in China are a warning shot in the new Cold War of our time -- the fight for dominance of cyberspace. It's a conflict the United States can't afford to lose.
Start by realizing that Google's decision to leave China was about far more than censorship. For the past year, Chinese government hackers have been trying push their way into Google's operating system. In recent attacks, they may have abused Google to access computers of some 200 US companies. That is, hacking Google gives China access not just to personal data about Chinese dissidents but any number of Americans -- and a portal to probe deeper into our nation's Internet defenses.
McConnell: Warns US is losing cyberwar. The Chinese have been on this case for a long time -- since 1999, when their military first adopted cyberattacks as a key to its overall strategy.
Every day, 6,000 hackers for the People's Liberation Army steadily look for ways to disrupt, disable and disarm America's most vital cyber links and systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“From China With Love” PING
Under the Obama regime, failure is always an option.
Does anyone really believe that Obama cares about protecting American military secrets from cyber attack? Likewise, does anyone truly believe he cares about protecting our power grid?
Didn’t think so.
bttt
Every day, 6,000 hackers for the People’s Liberation Army steadily look for ways to disrupt, disable and disarm America’s most vital cyber links and systems.
Block Chinese access to America?
Ya know the internet used to be American
before Big O gave it away.
Anyone who thinks China is a friendly country doesn’t know China. We are useful idiots to them.
Ya know the internet used to be American
before Big O gave it away.
Good grief! Any internationalization of the Internet went on a long time before Obama was ever even known by the American public... LOL ...
I've been reading about the Internet going commercial and then "international" since last century ... it's a process that has been going on for quite a long time.
And when you consider that the Internet is divided up into world regions, as far as assigning Internet names and that naming conventions (and disputes about such) are overseen by an International body -- it's not been something that has been in the complete control of the U.S. for a long time. It's been gradually slipping out of U.S. hands, anyway for a long time. And for good reason -- because what does the U.S. have to do with a part of the Internet which operates inside some other country and/or inside many other countries of the world.
Take China, for example... what goes on inside their borders and the servers in that country and the connections inside that country -- don't have anything at all to do with what goes on in the U.S. They've got the "great Internet wall of China" doncha know... :-)
Just read about "Internet Governance" and see how it's been progressively been in the process of being "distributed" throughout the world with International bodies taking control of one aspect or another, over a period of time.
We have as much "control" over the Internet as we have control over "phones" or "cell phones" ... LOL ...
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