Posted on 05/07/2013 6:11:55 PM PDT by lbryce
For the first time the Obama administration has explicitly accused China’s military of hacking into computer systems of the U.S. government and its defense contractors.
"The accusations relayed in the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on Chinese military capabilities were remarkable in their directness," writes David Sanger of The New York Times.
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Contractor offices are rife with political correctness that’s also seen in the private sector. We’re morally bankrupt.
What we need here is some real Nazi style control over the internet... /s
But, hey, the Free Traders still insist on Free Trade with Communist China....
And that is where the treason starts....
NYT was hacked and had the chinese in their systems for 52 days.
They don’t use microsoft.
China now exports more than America does.
American stores are filled with Chinese manufactured goods.
China is growing and we continue to SEND AMERICAN MANUFACTURING THERE.
Stop it now. For crying out loud. Just stop.
Bring back American manufacturing.
I’ve been to some sites that were security nightmares
hell, I’ve seen people FOB from ‘aggressive’ countries working behind name access only doors.
meanwhile, Hillary’s dept flushed 3m+ classified docs onto the net... and 0bama restarted the ‘Chinese scientist free access pass to the nuke labs’ project (after W shutdown Clinton’s program of the same ilk)
security is a joke these days
http://intelreport.mandiant.com/?gclid=CN68_Ki6hbcCFcN9OgodMScAhg
This Mandiant report summarizes the Chinese effort to hack almost every important network in the Western World.
Tom Clancy’s latest book used Chinese government based hackers as a major plot point. Super scary stuff. Think control of our electrical grid, nuclear power plants, drones, satellites, missile defense.
As far as China is concerned they are fighting a cold war again the USA, but apparently we don’t care or are willing participants in our own destruction.
The Russians have also been conducting major hacks on our systems.
This is an extremely serous problem with very long term consequences.
We should hire hackers to find out what the Chinese have and to acquire anything of value from their sites, and to hit them with massive denial of service attacks.
They’d likely find that the Chinese mainly had copies of stuff from the Western world and no valuable secrets to speak of.
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“For the first time the Obama administration has explicitly accused China’s military of hacking into computer systems of the U.S. government and its defense contractors. “
EPIC FAIL! Sounds like they are helplessly flailing for a solution. Duh...
“The accusations relayed in the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on Chinese military capabilities were remarkable in their directness,” writes David Sanger of The New York Times.
That may be because the extent of the theft is remarkable in its scope.”
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/2013_china_report_final.pdf
“Stop it now. For crying out loud. Just stop.”
Twenty years ago I was shocked by how many Red Chinese students were in college here; they were loyal Reds, and we were training them.
We still have several advantages.
1. We are more innovative, more creative.
2. Along with the “good stuff”, they have to wade through a lot of crap. If they really have “all” of our stuff, just sorting through it will take them a long time. By then we will have moved further ahead.
3. They have to figure out what to do with it and how. For example, information on how to build nuclear weapons is out there, but look at all the problems the Iranians are having.
Would you like an H1B with your TSSCI Fries?
Old news. Many contractors are deeply compromised. Between shoddy security policies and PLA operatives on the inside you can bet that they are reading most of our mail. When I worked for DoD there was an almost incomprehensible laxity among the contractors. PRC nationals in sensitive admin roles, PRC-sourced hardware installed on secure networks without testing or oversight and an atmosphere of denial that extended to officially ignoring huge numbers of network penetration attempts. Only when contract rebids were threatened was any remedial action taken. It was madness.
Doesn’t the Chinese version of, R&D, stand for “ripoff & duplicate”?
It's a regular industry for foriegn nationals: get a paycheck here working for a defense contractor and a paycheck back home for passing along info. It's not just the PRC. We had contractors from the UAE, Pakistan, Jordan, and Russia doing it too. The guy from Jordan got caught after he falsified his wife's info: he had to because she was a known Jordanian intelligence agent. This guy had a TS with poly and worked with sensitive material for at least a year. Last I heard he was fighting deportation.
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