Chinese hack parliament and US military

**English assassin** · 01-19-2006, 11:41

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/wee...689093,00.html

At last, cyber-war! Welcome to the 21st century. In a nutshell, chinese government hackers (probably) are trying to infitrate western government computer systems to steal information. With some successes it seems.

Can anything be done about this? If so, what? Is this just the behaviour of a superpower on the make (the historically inclined might remember that American law used to pay next to no protection to intellectual property protection while she was playing catch up, is this simply the modern equivalent?)

**Vladimir** · 01-19-2006, 13:39

"Old" news but good news. China has turned into a nation of thieves trying desperately to catch up to the rest of the world. If it's not the government doing the hacking it's hackers routing through China's primitive information infrastructure.

**Just A Girl** · 01-19-2006, 13:52

The black hats have been doing this for a long time..

There has always been the threat of Hacks in to gfoverment systems, And It has Never been said that it was the Goverment who was doing it,

IIRC there were a group of young asian males who would hack in to American or easten web pages who they did not like and whould replace them with there own pages,

They were eventualy caught, and were sentanced to Helping the govermen with there internet securaty,
and to use there hacking skills to tack down other hackers,

the us goverment feard these young men as they could not do a thing about them.
As far as i know,
The black hats stoped harrasing goverments.

**Reenk Roink** · 01-19-2006, 21:13

Darn it...now we will have to face the Chinese threat and cut back on our p0Rn...

**Watchman** · 01-19-2006, 21:25

What, why ? It's not like hackers of that caliber are going to have any trouble vacuuming all the pr0n they'll ever need if they feel like it, now are they ?

Don't give in to the fear of the Yellow Peril, son. Keep your pr0n like a true American patriot !