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EXPOSED: A picture of the hacking software shown during the Chinese military program. The large writing at the top says "Select Attack Target." Next, the user choose an IP address to attack from (it belongs to an American university). The drop-down box is (CCTV)
A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in cyberwarfare against entities in the United States.
Originally posted by hawkiye
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
Kind of makes you wonder how many of the idiots claiming the Chinese are no threat or our friends etc. are actually Chinese sock puppets or script runners...
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by Jay-morris
I think we simply have to accept that as species we can be wonderfully inventive, creative and caring whilst at the same time accepting that we can also be treacherous, sneaky, violent and underhand.
Nothing will change this - look at every example from history!
Originally posted by Jay-morris
Originally posted by hawkiye
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
Kind of makes you wonder how many of the idiots claiming the Chinese are no threat or our friends etc. are actually Chinese sock puppets or script runners...
LOL give me a break! The only way china will go into a war with America, is if amaerica provoke them, and lets face it, the american government are very good at doing that. Why the hell would China want to invade or go to war with America and lose all they have built in the last couple of decades? Please tell me why?
I don't think this view is remotely close to the way army generals are viewing things..
The reason China and America will go to war is incredibly easy to see. It's because of the need for powerful countries to secure resources, and have the largest say in international affairs. Right now, America has the largest say, through various policies enacted after we've won wars, but rooting in the fact that we've had military dominance for decades.
As resources continue to dwindle, and we have countries with people who seek to develop their potentials and enter the middle class, a point will be breached where it's more politically viable to attempt to solve these problems by direct confrontation over doing it covertly, and by proxy.
Don't be deluded. The race to secure the worlds resources are going into overdrive, and various economic, trade, and proxy wars have been going on for a long time now. Eventually, things will become direct, physical, and terribly violent.
Originally posted by BO XIAN
reply to post by hawkiye
Absolutely indeed.
I have no trouble whatsoever believing such reports.
They are consistent with what well connected folks told me personally when I lived there.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by Jay-morris
You don't speak for me, or anyone else.
You obviously have no clue of who I am, or history.
How many wars has China fought, you say? As if to say they haven't found any or many
I don't know all too much about history, but know China has fought many wars.
Get over yourself.
Originally posted by Gazrok
Why would China go to war with it's biggest customer?
It really is almost that simple. Not to mention, two nuclear superpowers going to war? MAD.
Mutually Assured Destruction. It's the same reason we never went to war with the Soviet Union.
There's simply no gain for them, even if they won. Which they wouldn't, because unlike other nations, we've actually USED the nuke in war...and like any nuclear superpower, we'd take our enemies down with us.
There will not be any direct hostilities with China - just look at the vulnerability of the Three Gorges Dam to a simple cruise missile strike
Even if there is a war and the dam is wracked, there'll be limited damage."
The state-controlled China Daily newspaper reported last year that channels had been dug out downstream to divert excess water released from a wrecked dam.
Hackers interfered with two U.S. government satellites four separate times in recent years, according to a congressional commission report to be released next month. In October 2007 and July 2008, a NASA-managed Landsat-7 satellite experienced 12 or more minutes of interference, and a Terra AM-1 satellite was disrupted for two minutes in June 2008 and again that October for nine minutes, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's analysis of the annual report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.