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Originally posted by DarthFazer
First thought was how do the US Gov and and Aussies know it was Chinese hackers to begin with? I mean did they leave a comment or a memento from China to symbolize the hack job? Or they were as so foolish as to use their own ip addresses like "Doh! forgot to use seven proxies"
Like I will buy the idea our government's security is open to get hacked by anyone yet these governements in turn can back trace you even when they violate security measures... yeah right!
Sounds like these unsecured supposed incompetent .gov servers are a honeypot with disinfo and fake schematics to maybe trap hackers and perhaps sabotage them in the process.
Or it is all a ruse it never really happened and was a story made up to further these fascist agendas to clamp down on our internet privacy again. Because whenever our government's goof it is us the people that end up suffering the consequences hence more legislation used against US!
Because this story does not make any sense what so ever. Because we are all suspects being watched by cameras on every corner, spied on by supercomputers underground in Langley VA. And made to believe these false events all the while being more then willing to turn the other cheek.
Either way we are being taken for a ride imhoedit on 29-5-2013 by DarthFazer because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ahnggk
Who's stupid enough to put classified blueprints on a machine that connects to the internet?
I used to join engineering competitions and do all my work on a machine with no internet connection whatsoever.
For my really classified work, I don't use a computer at all. Maybe use the computer to aid in calculations but I delete the files immediately after use without making any back ups.
If collaborative effort is required, you could perhaps have engineers work under the same location under a LAN with no internet access, no wifi, and with computers with no connectivity apart from cat-5 ports. But still, those measures cannot prevent an inside job.
Isn't it an act of war what the Chinese did??
Originally posted by boncho
I just picture an office building housing 20,000 Chinese hackers who work 18 hours a day with limited coffee breaks and pictures of Cecilia Cheung as their desktop background.
Isn't it an act of war what the Chinese did??
Originally posted by sean
You can gain access to a network that isn't on the internet. Someone on the inside a spy or a worker can just hide a small but powerful rogue wireless AP. In the government or corporate environment it's crucial to have a Wifi Internet Detection System in place. Or WIDS for short. They are basically a customized built Access Point with custom firmware/software that is powerful enough to cover a wide range of signals and channels within the buildings footprint that it scans.
It seeks out rogue AP's and the software alerts the admins. Or may even shutdown the rogue AP and isolate it from doing anything on the network by boxing it in with firewalls that block it's IP. You can even setup whats called a dummy machine or honeypot machine to make hackers believe they have infiltrated something when they really haven't. It's only to put them off long enough for the admins to pinpoint and triangulate the rogue AP's signals using a signal analyzer.edit on 30-5-2013 by sean because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by vpjanitorial
It's happened before with the Obama helicopters.
It's weird that we support a force that eventually will wage war against us