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Posted on 04/27/2009 2:32:20 AM PDT by Scanian
AMERICA needs to pay a heckuva a lot more atten tion to the cyberthreat. Now.
Sure, the Pentagon is refuting a Wall Street Journal report last week that hackers pinched loads of data on the military's newest, high-tech fighter aircraft from contractors' computer networks via the Internet.
But even if the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program wasn't actually penetrated by cyberspies, it's still a chilling wake-up call for the United States.
The computer systems of the F-35 Lightning were penetrated "repeatedly," according to the newspaper, allowing cyber cat burglars to "copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronic systems."
The Pentagon and the contractors are insisting that no classified information was stolen -- and that's likely the case, as classified computer systems aren't supposed to be hooked up to the Internet.
But it's definitely possible that data related to the warbird were taken, as any computer system that has a ramp onto or off the international information superhighway is vulnerable to penetration by crooks, spies or curious hackers.
Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"No wonder, then, that more than 100 countries are developing the ability to use the Web for spying or as a weapon, including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, ac- cording to estimates by cybersecurity firms and US intelligence."
Wrong answer. Take the sensitive secret stuff off the Internet and put it on a private network. If you don't know how to run a network get another job.
The powers that be don't like us common folks being able to access information and use it to figure out what they are doing to us. This is just one in a series of trial balloons to see how pissed we'll get after they shut off access to websites that don't follow the party line. FreeRepublic is one of the first that will be blocked by the Firewall of Fascism.
I’m waiting for the morning ,when I walk in here and try to get online and it has been shut down. Nothing would please Obama more than to do just that. Get rid of internet access ,talk radio ,control the newspapers ,banks etc. The rest is a walk in the park.Welcome to King Obama’s dictatorship..God help us.
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