Chinese military boosts hacking

Washington Times ^ | November 2, 2007 | Bill Gertz

[3AngelaD]

HONOLULU — Senior military commanders at the U.S. Pacific Command here said China's recent test of an anti-satellite weapon and increased computer-hacking activities prompted increased defenses for U.S. forces in the region and in space.

"U.S. space capabilities are an asymmetric advantage that we have to maintain," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Daniel Leaf, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.

"There has been significant discussion and activity to assess the impact of [the anti-satellite test] and other [Chinese] space developments, and how to protect our extraordinarily important space capability," he said in an interview at the command's headquarters at Camp H.M. Smith.

Pentagon officials have said Chinese military hackers in recent months carried out computer-based attacks on Pentagon and U.S. military and civilian government computer networks, as well as on foreign government networks....

Details of recent computer attacks, including those on Pacific Command networks, are classified, Gen. Leaf said. But the issue was raised in meetings with Chinese military officials...

Chinese military computer attacks "would not be consistent" with Beijing's claim to be a peaceful rising power, he said....

Air Force Gen. Paul Hester, commander of U.S. air forces in the Pacific, said ..."Cyber is a place where we are growing to learn where the dangers are..."

Of the January anti-satellite weapons test by China, Gen. Hester said, "This new, out-of-the-blue test by China was certainly not expected. Does it change the equation? Absolutely. They've demonstrated the capability."

Gen. Hester said he is concerned that such anti-satellite weapons could be used to disrupt U.S. military communications with commanders in Japan and South Korea...

[3AngelaD]

Apparently they are spying on us, but we are not spying on them.

[airborne]

Yeah, but the’re trustworthy trade partners!

Most favored, in fact.

[Froufrou]

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/petrov/2006/0120.html

This is why!

[Spruce]

On a related note, I read in Pop-Sci that China became the single largest ‘polluter’ of the space around the Earth with their little demonstration.

The amount of debris caused by the destruction of that one satellite was greater than all the junk left behind after decades of launches by the US and Russia.

Nice job commie rat-finks.

[airborne]

In 1971, as it became clear that the U.S. Government would not be able to buy back its dollars for gold, it prepared an alternative arrangement to hold the world hostage to its fiat dollar: during 1972-1973 it struck an iron-clad arrangement with Saudi Arabia—to support the rule of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only dollars as a payment for Saudi oil.

This explains a lot!

[Froufrou]

Doesn’t it? So much more clear than listening to crazed liberal professors.

[Paul Ross]

Bump. Yes. It does.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.