I hate crap like this... that people 1) Assume it was the military 2) It was done by the Chinese at all
China just had a few million people get online. You can bet that the vast portion are running pirated windows software, are not getting updates, and are therefore prime targets for hijacking and setting up of remote proxy. I see Chinese proxy's for sale in IRC all the time, and it's the Russians and Brazilians that are selling them... not their fellow Chinamen... Then people use this to justify further fears of China. Give me a break. China is FAR more dependent on us than we are of them. If our economy falters, they'll tank. They have enough citizens of theirs in this country at any given time such that if the REAL Chinese military DID want to actually hack into the Pentagon, they sure as HELL would be able to cover their tracks back to Beijing. I just had to add my 2 cents. Regards, Joel Helgeson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] What kind of Pentagon computers were hacked by the Chinese military? On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lieutenant General Robert Elder, senior Air Force officer for cyberspace > issues, recently joked that North Korea "must only have one laptop" to make > the more serious point that every potential adversary - except Pyongyang - > routinely scans US computer networks. What do other countries think of "attacks" originating from US IP addresses? Almost every measurement indicates US IP addresses are the source of more attacks on more parts of the Internet than any other country. How successful are US crackers at penetrating computers around the world? If you were in charge of cybersecurity for <Insert country name here>'s military, who would you be worrying about? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
