China’s cyber army is preparing to march on America, says Pentagon

times online ^ | September 8, 2007 | Tim Reid in Washington

[Flavius]

Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America’s aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report obtained by The Times.

The blueprint for such an assault, drawn up by two hackers working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is part of an aggressive push by Beijing to achieve “electronic dominance” over each of its global rivals by 2050, particularly the US, Britain, Russia and South Korea.

[Flavius]

maybe we should move more of our tech over there and import even more of the electronics

and to compensate crank out thousands more of lawyers and psyche majors

[Brilliant]

Don’t worry. They’ll all get lead poisoning and die before the get here.

[kinoxi]

Love the sarcasm, just needs more cowbell... :)

[dragnet2]

The blueprint for such an assault, drawn up by two hackers working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is part of an aggressive push by Beijing to achieve “electronic dominance” over each of its global rivals by 2050, particularly the US, Britain, Russia and South Korea.

Yes, but what about those great Wal-Mart deals?

[Flavius]

just keep on smiling

[fight_truth_decay]

MADISON, Wis. - TomoTherapy Inc., which makes radiation equipment for treating cancer, has struck a deal with a Chinese military hospital to use its system there, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Thursday.

The company's Hi-Art system will be used at the hospital called PLA301, where members of the People's Liberation Army are treated.

China was Wisconsin's third largest export market in 2006, buying $870 million worth of products from the state. That includes $338 million in machinery, $121 million in electrical machinery and $12 million in paper products.

Forbes

Perhaps we should give TomoTherapy Inc Management Team an email.
Investors can contact TomoTherapy Inc. at:
Phone: +1 608.824.2800

E-mail: investor_relations@tomotherapy.com

Address: Investor Relations
TomoTherapy Incorporated
1240 Deming Way
Madison, WI 53717-1954 USA

[Flavius]

you mean my emails vs $

[GingisK]

I think it would do no harm just to disconnect certain “trunk lines”.

[uncbob]

Beijing to achieve “electronic dominance” over each of its global rivals by 2050,

We be lucky to last that long with the barbarians at the gates now and the libs holding the door open

[familyop]

Military contractors should stop using “affirmative action” and test and hire some real consultants.

http://www.NetBSD.org/

Our forefathers knew how to put good people behind our defense (testing, testing,...). My fellow Baby Boomers don’t have a clue.

[Mariner]

I see China is still PLAYING CATCH UP.

Rookies.

The real talent is the the good 'ol USA. The problem is our commercial systems...they are vulnerable. Our critical defense systems are safe...but I doubt the Chinese systems are:)

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Don’t worry. They’ll all get lead poisoning and die before the get here.

Who? The Chicoms or the lawyers

[Uri’el-2012]

Why do you think this was unexpected.

It was Windoze.

[fight_truth_decay]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a89c1c88-5a38-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html

[paguch]

“We be lucky to last that long with the barbarians at the gates now and the libs holding the door open”

Holding the door open? How do we know what the Dems are doing in exchange for all of the campaign cash? Probably passing out keys.

[Clintonfatigued]

It started with Nixon and really came to fruition with Clinton.

If China buries us, it will be with shovels we sold or gave them.

[socialismisinsidious]

Exactly. And it hasn’t stopped considering the news of late. Heil Hitlery.

[Ronin]

I can’t believe that China’s hackers are better than the weirdo geek, Dead Cow Cult, pizza-munching, Pepsi-swilling, coke-coke-bottle-lensed American versions of same.

I think what we need is a new service branch. Don’t know what to call it, but anyhow, co-opt them, pay them mega, let them design their own uniforms, buy them all the toys they want and then turn THEM loose on the ChiComs.

Let’s see how Beijing would react to that!

[philetus]

Sounds like China is about to piss off the really good hackers in the USA, Britain, Russia and South Korea.

[taxcontrol]

I have previously presented to this administration, post 9/11 a means to do two things.

First, check every single IP address within the United States for known vulnerabilities and provide a means of reporting any findings back to the owners of the IP address for correction. This would have the effect of hardening millions of systems within the US making the whole country a much harder target.

Second, the creation of a NORAD like cyber command that would have the ability to monitor all Internet based hacker attacks that start, stop or pass through the US network. This would have the net effect of gathering signals intelligence to see who is originating the attacks, revealing the method and origin of the attack, and provide a means of enabling a rapid response to shut down the attack in progress or provide input into other intelligence gathering operations.

These ideas were even presented to the legal counsel for the NSA... sadly, because of the backlash from the so called “illegal” wiretaps, no one has the political balls to even propose such a system.