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Overruled1 said, "The FBI has chosen to go after the watchdog groups LuLz and Anonymous, even though our country's deepest military and corporate secrets were stolen by the Chinese who hack America to the detriment of our nation. (Ten) percent of all electronics coming from China has dual purposes. They are to work as a piece of equipment on your PC, and to also spy. It seems to me that the FBI is looking for the wrong people.
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You make an interesting comment, especially in light of the fact PRC president Jiang Zemin refused delivery on a Boeing 767 until it was cleared of all 27 listening devices (according to the Chinese claim).
By the same guiltily-cautious approach, the PRC refuses to allow Microsoft Windows to run on any government computers. Reason? The Chinese understand the power of automated systems to serve several purposes, all seemingly at once-- and not all purposes are openly-declared and transparent.
The PRC planted bugging software in the office of the Tibetan Dalai Lama. The software could "photograph" faces in front of the computer, record conversations, and could transmit data (including names, comments and facial images) of Tibetan and Chinese democratic dissidents making contact through the internet (on forums) with the same computer.
The PRC knows all about cyberwarfare technology, and a computer sold by a US firm, but made under contract in China can contain anything-- including root-level software that does the bidding of its remote master. Conceivably, not only Chinese-made computers, but computers containing critical, PRC-made code-driven subassemblies can be instruments of cyberwarfare.
In my own professional practice, I generally avoid software coming directly from Chinese sources, however benign its apparent purpose and mission. Yes, XXXXX software may recover a hard drive, and image my system, but what other tricks can it do? Unfortunately, I am forced to wait and see, if I should choose to install the suspect software.
Since mainland Chinese (PRC) sources of hardware must be distinguished from Taiwanese sources, it is unfair to subject all Chinese sources to the same level of scrutiny-- or is it? Abundant connections exist between nominally Taiwanese factories and mainland Chinese production centers. There is no effective separation or security.
Consider this-- the PRC and/or Taiwan make a huge proportion of all computer hardware sold around the world. PRC-made code-driven components are equally well distributed. This is a perfect ad hoc network for global cyberwarfare-- paid for and installed by the victims.
An average reader might not understand how privately-held computers can be used for espionage and sabotage of the kind Anonymous conducted. But read widely enough about cyberwarfare, they begin to understand the internet is a highway heavily traveled by both cops and robbers.
As an object example, the criminal botnets run by Eastern and Middle European gangs (and gangs from the Middle and Far East) are collections of privately-owned computers (some government-owned, as well) which are subject to remote control. The user will never understand how his bank account has been plundered, or how his computer was used to join a DDOS attack on a gang target.
But it happens every hour. - Reply to this comment
- The FBI has chosen to go after the watchdog groups LuLz and Anonymous, even though our country's deepest military and corporate secrets were stolen by the Chinese who hack America to the detriment of our nation.
10 percent of all electronics coming from China has dual purposes. They are to work as a piece of equipment on your PC, and to also spy.
It seems to me that the FBI is looking for the wrong people. - Reply to this comment
- Commander X - move out of your mom's basement.
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- Grr. DNS ... DoS. You know what I meant.
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- Hey, I have no problem if they tried to bring down Murdoch's empire (Well, I understand this might not be a legal way.).
Let's take legal actions...
//www avaaz org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?vl - Reply to this comment
- This is so funny. The "denial of service" is where the so called hackers download a program and run it. That's all, and that requires no genius. And they only have to snap their finger and a site is gone? Not quite. CommanderX fails to mention the many many sites he has attacked but failed to affect. http://getrealdudes000.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-goes-to-jail.html
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- The FBI will find and slap cuffs on you before your HotPocket is done in the microwave.
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- REALLY??????
Mention the "Woolworth lunch counter" and it guarantees they are looking for an American.
Also attack the Orlando site?
You might as well say that "I am an American and live in or near Orlando, Florida".
Thanks for the info........idiot. - Reply to this comment
- Just another HACK with an EGO!
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