Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Plans For Pretty Much The Entire US Military

Business Insider ^ | 5-28-2013 | Geoffrey Ingersoll

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Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Plans For Pretty Much The Entire US Military

Geoffrey Ingersoll
May 28, 2013, 11:11 AM

Hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems, according to a devastating classified report from a Pentagon advisor shared with the Washington Post.

Although the report from the Defense Science Board did not identify the hackers, senior military and industry officials with knowledge of the breaches say they come primarily from China, according to Ellen Nakashima of the Post.

A public version of the report released in January warned of an "existential cyber attack" with "potentially spectacular" effects.

Some of the more disturbing leaks include designs for cutting edge jets, missile systems, and electronic warfare technology.

Here's a partial list of compromised designs:

F-35

V-22

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD Missile Defense)

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (Patriot missile defense system)

AMRAAM (AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile)

Global Hawk (high altitude surveillance drone)

PII (email addresses, SSN, credit card numbers, passwords, etc.)

“That’s staggering,” Mark Stokes, executive director of the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank that focuses on Asia security issues, told the Washington Post. “These are all very critical weapons systems, critical to our national security. When I hear this in totality, it’s breathtaking.”

Evidently part of the big haul was schematics for small parts needed to set up manufacturing for these weapons systems. China apparently uses several different means to gain access to these Defense Systems, most of them utilizing what Information Security experts call "human engineering" — when manipulative emails or clever online con-men actually get victims to divulge information on their own.

From Quartz:

[One more convincing tactic is executed] by creating innocuous-looking companies and research institutes that reach out to US companies, researchers and universities under

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[familyop]

"Sad to say but I am afraid it won’t happen without some catastrophic event (economic collapse with class in fighting or an all our armed revolution)."

Well said and in-fighting likely, in my opinion. I'm glad that you brought that up.

Many middle class folks with direct and indirect government incomes (indirect, re. services dependent on customers with government incomes) have spoken their imaginations about wave attacks against suburbs by huge numbers of food stamp recipients ("zombies") despite our agricultural resources and the histories of previous economic collapses. The following is much more of a likelihood.

Many middle class subgroups (mostly socialists, though very few see themselves that way) are already looking for their next targets to get fees, fines, taxes and other "revenues" from or to de-fund in budget considerations, and other subgroups with government incomes or incomes otherwise dependent on debt/revenues are those targets. They are the most likely "zombies," in a sense--each political faction gives other factions the evil eye in political speeches behind the scenes with hopes of pulling funding from other groups to its own members.

They won't get it from the rich (lack of production, inflation, debt pileup continues to be a mounting problem) or the poor (nothing to take, the whole food stamp budget being only about one-tenth of the yearly deficit), and production of real wealth (manufacturing, etc.) is shutting down, little by little. One group of middle class folks will go after another. They already are, just a little bit.

As the debt decline continues, they'll do as the Greeks have recently done or worse. ...probably worse, from the looks of political speech and hysterical legislative gestures here and there.

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[Graewoulf]

Duh, use NO COMPUTERS for Top Secrets as all information on US Government Computers belongs to Chinese Government Hackers.

The question is not “never letting it happen again,” or “if.” it is “WHEN”!!!!!!!