So I spent some time today reading up on some China vs. USA analysis after reading the BBC piece below along with a few others from various other news agencies over the last year about the increasing cyber attacks by Chinese hacking groups frequently associated with the Chinese military.
These groups have been targeting many of America's largest corporations such as Google, Coca Cola, EMC, Lockheed Martin and many others for the last few years. Now there is a confirmed attack on the American military in which many plans for our latest weapons systems have been stolen.
The corporate attacks them selves amount to an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars, which angers me by it's self, but the fact that the Chinese military may now have details about our missile defense systems and advanced war machines such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is quite scary to me.
Some people think that a direct armed conflict between China is inevitable because of the heightened economic situations around the world, ever decreasing amounts of natural resources (oil), and rising tensions in the pacific around Japan, Korea, and the Philippines (countries threatened by Chinese expansion with which America has direct military alliances/protection pacts).
Others seams to believe that there is no chance for any direct armed conflict, and that China and America are instead headed for more of a cold war scenario.
China has been ramping up the production of a larger naval fleet to help it control the Pacific and Eastern Oceans. They have also had their hands in many affairs in Africa, selling military weapons and plains to Sudan, and proving weapons and infrastructure to many other African countries. Lately China has had a hand in the war in Syria, joining forces with Russia to back Syria's president against the uprising. It seams to me that China has been steadily escalating it's role in global conflicts, and most of the time it has been to America's detriment.
It seams to me China is really trying hard to gain the upper hand on America both economically and militarily. If China did not see some sort of armed conflict with the US in it's future why would they feel the need to steel military and intelligence information from the US and its Pacific allies? I see China's cyber attacks as just that, an attack. What is America's policy on cyber war?
These groups have been targeting many of America's largest corporations such as Google, Coca Cola, EMC, Lockheed Martin and many others for the last few years. Now there is a confirmed attack on the American military in which many plans for our latest weapons systems have been stolen.
The corporate attacks them selves amount to an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars, which angers me by it's self, but the fact that the Chinese military may now have details about our missile defense systems and advanced war machines such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is quite scary to me.
Some people think that a direct armed conflict between China is inevitable because of the heightened economic situations around the world, ever decreasing amounts of natural resources (oil), and rising tensions in the pacific around Japan, Korea, and the Philippines (countries threatened by Chinese expansion with which America has direct military alliances/protection pacts).
Others seams to believe that there is no chance for any direct armed conflict, and that China and America are instead headed for more of a cold war scenario.
China has been ramping up the production of a larger naval fleet to help it control the Pacific and Eastern Oceans. They have also had their hands in many affairs in Africa, selling military weapons and plains to Sudan, and proving weapons and infrastructure to many other African countries. Lately China has had a hand in the war in Syria, joining forces with Russia to back Syria's president against the uprising. It seams to me that China has been steadily escalating it's role in global conflicts, and most of the time it has been to America's detriment.
It seams to me China is really trying hard to gain the upper hand on America both economically and militarily. If China did not see some sort of armed conflict with the US in it's future why would they feel the need to steel military and intelligence information from the US and its Pacific allies? I see China's cyber attacks as just that, an attack. What is America's policy on cyber war?
The administration’s May 2011 International Strategy for Cyberspace pledged that the United States “will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat” and that “we reserve the right to use all necessary means.” This is a beginning but hardly enough. A fuller debate might broach such topics as: What are the conditions and thresholds for offensive cyberoperations? What are the rules of engagement? Where are the boundaries between espionage and offensive military operations? What is the chain of command?
Chinese hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen US weapons systems, a US newspaper has reported.
Designs for combat aircraft, ships and missile defenses were among those compromised, a Pentagon paper found, the Washington Post reported.
Designs for combat aircraft, ships and missile defenses were among those compromised, a Pentagon paper found, the Washington Post reported.
A secretive branch of China's military is probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said.
Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.
Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.
On Monday the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported blueprints setting out the building's cable layouts and security systems had been illegally accessed by a server in China.
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The latest and most telling example came Tuesday. According to a new report from information security company Mandiant, the Chinese military is linked to one of the most prolific hacking groups in the world.
That group, known as the "Comment Crew," has attacked Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500), EMC (EMC, Fortune 500) security division RSA, military contractor Lockheed Martin (LMT, Fortune 500), and hundreds of others. It reportedly holds the blueprints to America's energy systems, and has funneled trade secrets out of some of the country's largest corporations.
The latest and most telling example came Tuesday. According to a new report from information security company Mandiant, the Chinese military is linked to one of the most prolific hacking groups in the world.
That group, known as the "Comment Crew," has attacked Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500), EMC (EMC, Fortune 500) security division RSA, military contractor Lockheed Martin (LMT, Fortune 500), and hundreds of others. It reportedly holds the blueprints to America's energy systems, and has funneled trade secrets out of some of the country's largest corporations.
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