A Cyber-Pearl Harbor On Horizon?

IBD Editorials ^ | July 15, 2011 | Staff

[bigheadfred]

When the Red Chinese get that “industrial” complex set up just south of Boise they will have a fine little base of operations. Here.

[bitt]

what?? what??

[conservativeimage]

Cyber-Pearl WHO CARES? OBAMA CUTS PENTAGON BUDGET!!!

[tiki]

A person I trust told me about this the other day. She knew because her friend works with this kind of stuff and has been all over the country lately. He says it is Russia.

[Uri’el-2012]

Why is DoD or any DoD contractor
using Microsoft on the Internet ?

[bigheadfred]

INSANITY

[Trod Upon]

If you count Chinese espionage the attack has already happened.

[FourPeas]

This is not news to anyone in the computer security, only to those who hold the purse strings who think their IT security folks are just paranoid ninnies.

[DJ MacWoW]

Men of Honor

Benjamin Franklin

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When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

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[mvpel]

Why is DoD or any DoD contractor using Microsoft on the Internet ?

It baffles me, frankly. The security config guide for Windows XP is about 150 pages long - why would anyone want to put up with that just to be able to crank out crappy classified Powerpoint presentations?

[raptor22]

National security ping

[PiperShade]

Oh, that attack has already been successfully accomplished !

Aside from what’s been revealed by the Pentagon, there’s multiple issues of bogus/inferior aircraft hardware issuing from China. Everything from rivets to bolts to
computer chips complete with a “back door” enabling those with the key to disable them at will.

Now ask your congresscritter and local “watermelon” “why” we don’t have secure domestic sources of these critical parts/materials. >PS

[Texas Eagle]

What do you expect when your President is Inspector Clouseau.

[Vendome]

De-Res

[Georgia Girl 2]

You got that right. That little project needs to be stopped cold.

[bigheadfred]

With the way we handle the crap coming over the southern border, this little exercise in complete stupidity may do us in.

[Albion Wilde]

Mass systems = mass vulnerability. This is just one reason why I am against BRAC in an age of terrorism. We need more bases in more locations, not fewer.

[Albion Wilde]

What do you expect when your President is Inspector Clouseau.

And here I thought he was the Pink Panther.

(You learn something every day on FR!)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

A brother/sister combo of younger relatives with a long back ground in computers/programming and foriegn languages have been concerned about this potential for decades.