Posted on 12/05/2007 2:47:52 AM PST by Flavius
National Security: China continues to develop its cyberwarfare capabilities and hacks into the computer systems of foreign governments and corporations. So why are we considering a deal to show them how?
The London Times over the weekend reported that Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, Britain's domestic spy agency, sent a letter last week to 300 British executives and security chiefs at major corporations warning them they were under attack from "Chinese state organizations" over the Internet.
These attacks involved Chinese "trojans" or software designed to hack into computer systems and feed back confidential data. It is the latest example of a growing Chinese cyberespionage and cyberwarfare capability.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
maybe they should just make pc's in china and sell them over here, that would make it so much more convenient to hack and call back home to motherland or never never land
They already do. I don't know that there's any evidence that they 'phone home', but still...
This can work both ways.
Time to send China the Mother of all viruses.
Not only that, but apparently they put trojans in those USB storage devices, so when you plug them in and they install, you are infected.
Actually, the klintoons GAVE them some of the rope for a piddling few 100K in backdoor payoffs.
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