[Former Proud Canadian]

China and the US (the west?) are in a cyberwar. China is winning.

[ClearCase_guy]

The US government does IT surprisingly poorly.

Look at the Obamacare web site fiasco.
Look at the IRS software upgrade fiasco.
Look at the State Dept email fiasco.

You think Dept of Defense is a lot better? It isn’t.

[mongo141]

I would think that when the F’ng government admits to a problem it is only a very small tip of iceberg showing since the government is a world class lier. Most transparent my a$$ there Omarxist.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

That or they are blaming China when the real guilty party is a pack of liberal activists.

[C210N]

This would be a good time to check fire prevention tactics, equipment, supplies, etc, at the Los Alamos National Labs.

[ChicagahAl]

China and the US (the west?) are in a cyberwar. China is winning.

Actually, I think the Chinese cyberwar against America is like the rest of the wars being waged against America.

The US isn't even fighting back and is barely even trying to play "DE-fense".

Our enemies have an objective and are trying to win. We aren't even in the game.

So, yeah; they're winning and we're losing.

If only we could elect some good, strong, Conservative political leaders, who would lead us to victory. If only. If only.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Here is a question to to consider and discuss. Did “free” trade give China the ability to pull this off?

[jimjohn]

Again I ask: what if it was NOT the Chinese or even a foreign entity? Remember: these are the same people who told us the north Koreans hacked a movie studio.

[familyop]

That information should not have been connected to the Internet. All defense computing systems should be NetBSD, customized and hardened. It’s the most stable system with the kernel isolated from user software. The same operating system can be embedded in many kinds of devices.

https://netbsd.org/

[TexasTransplant]

More worried about our Early Warning Defense, Nukes, Ships, Aircraft (including Drones) and Troops.

What a cluster F

We need to get the manchild under control and then gone. 2017 can’t come soon enough.

TT

[GingisK]

It should be easy enough to exclude China’s access to our part of the Internet.

[Interesting Times]

In what Rep Mike Rogers called "the mother of all spear-phishing attacks...."

Rogers may not understand the term "spear-phishing," which is a tailored e-mail fraud attempt that targets a specific individual or organization. Or maybe what he meant to say is that the theft of millions of federal and contractor files is likely to be *followed* by a massive wave of such attacks.

Watching politicians try to talk about IT security is painful.