CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

Thu Apr 25 23:06:09 UTC 2002

> Rounding up 1 significant figure would reduce their combat effectiveness
> measurably.
> 
> The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a
> missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.

The Chinese had the shenzhou 2 capsule in orbit for 7 months in 2001...

more recently shenzhou 3 went up with and safely returned nine eggs after 
108 orbits...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1948000/1948317.stm

One would suspect that that they're far more interested in launching 12-14 
ton commercial payloads with the long-march 2ea, then they are in blowing 
up the US.

> We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less expensive to
> create than invasion or nuclear weapons.
> 
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET
> 
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> 
> 
> I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must assume
> by now.
> Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take
> Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a favor.
> Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that.
> 
> At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government would actively
> fund
> >cyberterrorism?
> >
> >Deepak Jain
> >AiNET
> 
> 
> 

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