This malware news immediately following the balloon incident is NOT a coincidence.
Posted on 07/31/2023 7:16:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"They do not know the full extent of the code’s presence in networks around the world".
The fact that China was able to do this is catastrophic. We’re losing any pre-war prep to China which means that it’s likely to move more aggressively. A balance of power is the best way to avert a war and that depends on us keeping up our end. The Biden administration has failed grotesquely at that. Biden’s latest decision to pick a “historic” Navy Chief of Naval Operations instead of the one readiest to take on China just plays into that. But the national security complex has also failed badly at doing its job. Yet again.
Finally, a basic question is what exactly does an act of war with the PRC look like short of live fire?
This looks a whole lot like planting bombs in the event of a future conflict. It’s closer to the wire than the past hacks because this is not espionage, it looks more like terrorism. And we consider that an act of war.
The closest counterparts to this were the revelations that the USSR had planted nuclear weapons on American soil in the event of a war. While arms caches were found in some European countries, the suitcase nukes never were. The Clinton administration showed no interest in the subject and no one followed up since. That means we might still have bombs waiting to go off in major cities.
But whether the Russian suitcase nukes exist, the Chinese digital malware certainly does.
The malware, one congressional official said, was essentially “a ticking time bomb” that could give China the power to interrupt or slow American military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to U.S. military bases. But its impact could be far broader, because that same infrastructure often supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans, according to U.S. officials.
They say the investigations so far show the Chinese effort appears more widespread — in the United States and at American facilities abroad — than they had initially realized. But officials acknowledge that they do not know the full extent of the code’s presence in networks around the world, partly because it is so well hidden.
There is a debate inside the administration over whether the goal of the operation is primarily aimed at disrupting the military, or at civilian life more broadly in the event of a conflict. But officials say that the initial searches for the code have focused first on areas with a high concentration of American military bases.
I sure would like more details...
That may be true but there aren’t many Jay Sixers left still walking around free. The Feddies are baggin’ them like white on rice.
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China already embedded "crippling malware" in our economy along time ago, with full bipartisan support ...
A number of years ago, Huawei was a small insignificant company which opened an office in the USA, they proceeded to start buying up Cisco Systems equipment, buying a few of everything Cisco sold, including the IOS and operating manuals.
They shipped all that equipment, software and documentation back to China, reverse engineered it and added to the equipment the ability for the Chinese to use it for spying purposes. They also attempted to essentially buy off Cisco Engineers to provided proprietary information on Cisco Technology.
This is one of the reasons the US was really pressuring our allies to not purchase anything from Huawei because it would compromise every installation where the equipment was installed.
Here is just one article where Cisco was suing Huawei.
If you don’t know who Cisco Systems is, they are essentially the Google of computer networking equipment, routers, switches, security devices, etc., everything from consumer products all the way up to carrier class equipment. If all the Cisco System equipment in the world shut off at the same time, the entire world’s economy would shut down immediately.
“Hey cap’n, it looks like there are some chinks in our security system”.
Probably a built-in KILL SWITCH to be triggered in case of a war.....................
I have seen NO news that anything in the NIPR Net is compromised by malware.
SIPR? Sure. People do dumb things...
Almost anyone with at least a 6th grade education was aware of this threat. That Biden, or whomever, ignored or were paid off, is nothing short of malfeasance at best or treason at worst.
This was a concern 20 years ago. I guess common sense lost that argument.
This malware news immediately following the balloon incident is NOT a coincidence.
Perhaps just checking things are in place, or some code to enable their malware?
20 years ago Huawei was shipping copies of Cisco manuals with their equipment with the Cisco logo still on them.
Because the nukes were rumored to be planted during the Cold War era and these weapons need significant routine maintenance to remain operational, doesn't the military believe that they represent no threat now, even if they exist? I seem to recall some report to that effect.
The Chinese are NOT to be trusted. It would be nice to have a President again and not some occupant of the White House who is bribed by the CCP to look the other way.
Huawei didn't add the ability for the Chinese to use it for spying purposes, the spying capability was already built in under orders from the NSA before Huawei reverse engineered it.
I’m thinking something like the mini-series Battlestar Galactica when the Cylons attack after turning on their computer viruses and rendering Colonial Defenses inert...
Technically, properly configured every Cisco device could be configured to help in spying, without any added features.
Often times Cisco equipment is out in the middle of no where and remotely managed, meaning they can easily be taken over by anyone with the proper credentials.
Technically, properly configured every Cisco device could be configured to help in spying, without any added features.
Often times Cisco equipment is out in the middle of no where and remotely managed, meaning they can easily be taken over by anyone with the proper credentials.
The ones I saw were word for word identical to Cisco devices and although I never worked on any Huawei equipment, I was told you could configure one with the exact same commands and structure you would in a normal Cisco IOS device.
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