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To: Norseman

“And if the Chinese get hold of him, what he’s revealed so far might pale in comparison to what they are able to squeeze out of him later.”

Well, we’ll see if that ever happens, that the Chinese swoop down, whisk him away and interrogate him for all the world to see. And I’m sure that they are going to do this while Mr. Snowden is in Hong Kong, which fights mainland China tooth and nail in order to preserve freedom of speech. Heck, the Chinese may very well have already hacked all of our data mining anyhow.


232 posted on 06/10/2013 9:35:56 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: flaglady47
Heck, the Chinese may very well have already hacked all of our data mining anyhow.

I believe you may have just said a mouthful of truth.

It's quite possible focus on Snowden has been created to draw attention away from the fact we've already been had.

After all.. remember this?

I guess computer security's JOB and NEW ROLE is to let them know
what's been compromised rather than preventing it from happening.

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

Business Insider  | 5-28-2013 | Geoffrey Ingersoll

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.

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-hacked-us-military-weapons-systems-2013-5

250 posted on 06/10/2013 10:07:32 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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