Cyber officials: Chinese hackers attack 'anything and everything'

fcw.com ^ | February 13, 2007 | Josh Rogin

[MarkL]

The really frustrating thing about this is that most of these PLA hackers were trained in computer science/engineering programs in American universities under international student exchange programs during the Clinton years. Now, these American-trained ChiCom hackers are in the PLA and are turning their training against us in cyberspace.

Yup, though it's still going on today... When I was in school, back in 1986, while in the engineering buildings, I could go days without hearing English spoken once, outside of classes. And in fact, we had a "visiting professor" from China teaching a digital logic class, who would occassionally lapse into Chinese during his lectures (his English was horrible and the Chinese students in the class had a habit of asking questions in Chinese, and he'd answer them in Chinese as well! Yes, we complained to the EE department).

Mark

[Wolverine]

Information flowing............................................................................>

[aimhigh]

We need to get our teenage hacking communities to target China.

[Riverine]

I'm afraid that would upset the Waltons (as well as many others).

[doc11355]

At this point, I invite the Apple users to remind us, ONE MORE TIME, of the vastly superior security of the Apple family of operating systems. Right after that, they can explain why Apple computers have to continue to cost so much more than PCs. (Outside of pure greed, that is.)

You're hereby reminded as requested. Most Mac users don't even feel the need to run antivirus software. If you're happy with Windows, though, more power to ya'.

As to their cost, current Macs are about on par with mid- and high-end PCs having equivalent specs. What aren't available from Apple are stripped-down entry-level machines priced as loss leaders.

[EEDUDE]

Anyone that believes that China is our "friend" is a fool.

[johnmark7]

Yeah, I'm hoping we're returning the favor.

[TheLion]

Thanks for that info.