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

Fri Apr 26 02:19:56 UTC 2002

You know, "we" all my be the first to see and understand that such a attack 
is in progress...attacks against critical targets can come from anywhere 
with distributed computing. Even IF we detected it happening, the question 
is, who would you tell, and more importantly, "do you trust YOUR 
government" with that information? With whats gone on to neutralize the 
Constitution since 9.11, its hard to say just who IS the enemy. I know the 
whole process of turning the US into a police-state is un-nerving to say 
the least. But I digress....
That whole article thats in the LA times is a rehash of the article that 
was on C4I.org back when the US spy plane was held in China. Interesting to 
see some reporter dug it up and made it frontpage again. Why?

At 18:25 4/25/02 -0700, you wrote:
>How many PC's and components are 'Made in China'?
>
>In the dark ages, I worked for Williams Electronics. We made Arcade Games
>*blush*. Once we found our custom chip was reverse engineered in Taiwan, and
>they were shipping knockoffs six weeks after we started shipping the real
>product.
>
>If true, these are not script kiddie type threats. I hate to say it, but 911
>is an example that the unthinkable isn't.
>
>Bruce Williams
>"A healthy paranoia is the beginning of sound operations policy"
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > blitz
> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:33 PM
> > To: nanog at trapdoor.merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >