Is China an adversary?  They hold something like a $1 trillion of U.S.
home mortgages.

I always we kind of spied on friends and foes alike.

Richard


>
> Should we be hacking into the computer systems of our....adversaries?
> Actually, I would think so.
>
> And I would put out honeypots for my own adversaries to attack and hope
> they think they were successful. This sounds like a job for the
> Department of Electronic Disinformation.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [funsec] China Says It Has Suffered 'Massive' Internet Spy
> Damage
>
> It looks like there is contest now on by governments of the world to
> claim the title for the most insecure government IT systems! ;-)
>
> Is Russia next?
>
> Richard
>
>
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>> Via Reuters.
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>> [snip]
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>> China has suffered "massive" losses of state secrets through the
>> Internet, a senior official said, as China faces reports that it has
>> raided the computer networks of Western powers.
>>
>> Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said his country was
>
>> the target of a campaign of computer infiltration and subversion and
>> proposed a raft of counter-measures including toughened censorship,
>> new security bodies and commercial controls.
>>
>> He did not address recent Western allegations of cyber-spying against
>> China.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> More:
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSPEK8648420070912
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>> - - ferg
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>> --
>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
>> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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