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[Eagles6]

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[Gorzaloon]

Nobody will tell me why we have to accept packets from .cn or why we need to have connectivity with them. My .htacess file is as large as the server will handle, and if I can deny so many of their IPs on my stupid little websites, then the Government can as well.

I was getting those, "Send us a sample product and we'll buy thousands" emails.

They get a reply, "Thank you for your large donation to Falun Gong".

I see my IP Adresses are now blocked by the PRC. Good.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Jeff, I think that you might be interested in this story.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The really sad part of this story is that most of the PLA hackers were trained in the American universities in the 1990s.

[flowerplough]

Anyone alarmed? China’s cyber spies have been a part of America’s computer networks for over a decade, and their military and industrial engineer spies have been here since Nixon invited ‘em. The Chinese Empirists want to reclaim Taiwan soon and have their eyes on a few disputed Japanese/Chinese islands as belated WWII reparations, for starters. America protects both, so Sun Tzu’s principle’s apply.

[wolfcreek]

Trojan Dragons: Tiger Balm scented condoms? Weee Ohh!

Seriously, the ChiComs have the ability to shot down our satellites and corrupt our computers......they'll win the war before it begins.

[longtermmemmory]

so this explains all the huckabee threads...

[Eye of Unk]

We can always just turn OFF our internet.

[tacticalogic]

I wonder if the Hong Kong Blondes are still around. If they are we should find them and give them all the resources they need. I’d say we should recruit them and give them facilities here to work from, but I’m afraid their identities and location would become known to the PRC.

[Paul Ross]

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[Calpernia]

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[Paul Ross]

And via their computer network operations,China's clandestine intelligence collection is the top intelligence threat to America's science and technology secrets. If the Administration believes otherwise, it ought to explain to the American people why, in the face of the steady reports of Chinese cyber spying, the concern is misplaced. But it cannot simply refrain from making the judgment and sharing it with the public.

Oh, it can't, can it? I beg to differ. This Administration has demonstrated a profound disregard for the concerns of the American people. They apear to believe in the maxim that no one ever lost an election discounting the intelligence of the American electorate.

And now into the last half of the 2nd term LameDuck-In-Chief thinks he is especially off the hook.

So they can and they still do "refrain". Witness the whitewash policy already in place for the Navy port call spat over their Hong Kong visit.

I wish I could believe in the cloak-and-dagger hypothesis why we are refraining from Presidential acknowledgment of the issue. Supposedly keeping our counter-measures secret until essential need requires their exposure. But the implicit denial of the threat flies in the face of the very real damage and compromise routinely being inflicted against our cyber security.

Where the hell do they draw the line? And who says we should any longer trust their judgement? As the article says...it is all of our business...literally in the cyber-gun sights of these hacker teams. Our finances, everything. And nothing is done.

The White House is corrupt. It does not represent the America I grew up in. Clearly, on this issue, It does not represent the American People.

And sadly, it is clear the administration intends to further endanger us for a pathetically few scheckels! Apparently it is in the works to override the NSA and DIA's objections at CFIUS to the Bain Capital's / Huaewai Technology's bid to buy up 3Com...our primary cyber security firm the U.S. government relies upon.

[DoughtyOne]

I know this is somewhat of an unpopular opinion, but we got caught with our pants down on 09/11.

Our top domestic civilian, political and military targets were left unprotected by the tens of thousands of "brilliant minds" in our government and national security agencies.  If it weren't for some brave civilians on board Flight 93, Congress or the White House would have likely been destroyed.

I don't say this to wollow in it.  I say this, because it is true, and after watching how carelessly our leaders have allowed tens of thousands of people to enter here from states where vile sects of Islam dominate, it would be impossible to claim we've learned our lesson.  Millions of unknowns later, having crossed our borders plans and destinations also unknown, we are undeniably vulnerable.

Articles like these are intended to sound alarm bells.  They may or may not be spot on, but I sure hope someone at the top is listening.  If I hear some of the same lame-ass excuses next time, that we did last time, I'm going to be one guy (figuratively) looking for ropes and low branches.

[Paul Ross]

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