U.S. cyber espionage report names China and Russia as main culprits, page 1

U.S. cyber espionage report names China and Russia as main culprits, page

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Topic started on 3-11-2011 @ 07:59 PM by nixie_nox

Billions of dollars of trade secrets, technology and intellectual property are being siphoned each year from the computer systems of U.S. government agencies, corporations and research institutions to benefit the economies of China and other countries, the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive said

washingtonpost.com

Now this is interesting.

It is like a form of internet warfare. How bold of the US government to point the fingers publicly, though this may be a warning to other countries such as Japan and Germany.

But this is one of those quiet crimes that we rarely hear of.

In fact, China has set up Project 863 to acquire U.S. technology and sensitive economic information in clandestine fashion for just that purpose, the report said. Last year, Google announced that proprietary data were stolen by hackers in China, which experts called part of a vast campaign of economic espionage

The big question is here, exactly what is going to be done about it?

reply posted on 3-11-2011 @ 08:04 PM by nixie_nox

reply to post by mr10k

This is pretty chilling:

In fact, China has set up Project 863 to acquire U.S. technology and sensitive economic information in clandestine fashion for just that purpose, the report said. Last year, Google announced that proprietary data were stolen by hackers in China, which experts called part of a vast campaign of economic espionage

And no its not a dead target, it can be much worse.

reply posted on 3-11-2011 @ 09:00 PM by nixie_nox

reply to post by Rockdisjoint

then what about russia? Isreal and France are guilty of it too, they are just not the biggest contributers. And what if we find out that China is doing it to everybody?

reply posted on 3-11-2011 @ 09:29 PM by JBA2848

Im not sure how many people know what Hillary Clinton has been up to with Russia. She runs USAID program. They have decided to give Russia fifty million dollars to teach them how to use the internet. That money goes with A billion dollar program Cisco has planned to teach Russia how to use the internet.

www.reuters.com...

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Networking giant Cisco Systems and USAID have signed a deal under which they will fund up to $50 million of initiatives to boost the use of IT by government and civilians in Russia.

en.rian.ru...

CISCO, one of the largest technology companies in the world, will plow $100 million into Russian venture capital projects and could increase its investment to $1 billion over several years, CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday.

But if im not mistaken Russia has had computers as long as the US.

www.techradar.com...

According to the Russian Virtual Computer Museum, Lebedev's team had now swollen to 150, and they were even able to export a BESM-2 to China. By the 1960s, the Soviet military had truly woken up to the computer's potential for planning, logistics, and battlefield simulation. They demanded even more number-crunching power.

In response, Lebedev made the first Soviet supercomputer, BESM-6, in 1967. Running at an impressive 10MHz to speed execution, the BESM-6 used cache memory to store frequently used instructions and could work on processing up to 14 instructions at once. Lebedev called this the 'principle of water pipe' – what we now call instruction pipelining. However, much of the technology used in the BESM-6 wasn't original. It was stolen from IBM.

So why would Hillary give them fifty million dollars? They don't need to learn how to use the internet.According to the CIA factbook about Russia. Russia has as many internet users as France Thier not far behind the UK. Hell Russia is listed as number ten for countries with the most internet users. They are listed at number 12 for the countries with the most internet host. And USAID thinks that a fund should be given to them as if they are a third world country who needs help learning about those techy doodad things that civilized countries use. WTF!

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