On the other hand, I believe China did it too, so I got noooooo problem with it.
Official: 'Massive' Damage to China From Hacking
Charge Seen as Response to Reports of Chinese Hacking in Western Countries
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 12, 2007; 10:12 AM
BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- A senior Chinese official said foreign intelligence agencies have caused "massive and shocking" damage to China by hacking into computers to ferret out political, military and scientific secrets.
The charge, from Vice Information Industry Minister Lou Qinjian, seemed designed as a response to recent reports that Chinese hackers had infiltrated high-security computers in several Western countries, penetrating the Pentagon, the British Foreign Office and the German chancellor's headquarters.
Lou, writing in the September issue of the Chinese Cadres Tribune, did not specifically name the countries carrying out what he described as "external espionage activities against our core, vital departments." But he said 80 percent of the computers from which worldwide hacking originates are in the United States.
Lou's comments were interpreted as a reflection of official attitudes toward the accusations of Chinese hacking. The monthly magazine is published by the Central Party School, a Communist Party training facility for up-and-coming officials.
Surprisingly, Lou said the electronic espionage against China has met with success. It therefore needs to addressed by President Hu Jintao's government, he said, with additional investment in computer security and perhaps formation of a unified information security bureau.
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ok, this is worth a clarifying $.02...,
yeah, I'll buy the premise, cause 80% of the world's operationally ungoverned compute infrastructure is concentrated in and around U.S. colleges and universities. the other big chunk of digital wilderness from which any party can be expected to routinely launch shit is the U.S. healthcare technology infrastructure.
who's to say, however, that "foreign intelligence" is perpetrating these forays? lotsa foreign nationals with skillz lodged up in these colleges and universities you know, lots of chinese nationals matriculating in U.S. colleges and universities too..., I'd be more inclined to believe that the nuanced hum-int required to pull off consequential jack moves is simply not vested in U.S. controlled intelligence assets. However, the hum-int component exists in droves in and among Chinese nationals studying in the U.S. - most of whom I've observed to be very autonomous.
there's a cultural component at work here too. I've met a fair number of Chinese hackers, a couple sikhs, but never once have I met a hindu, japanese, african, or latino hacker (take that back, the air force trained up a bunch of mexicans in San Antonio at Kelly AFB) but those cats were all concept and no execution.
bottom line, I think much of the chinese hacking is internecine, ethno-sectarian
, an shit.....,