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RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
From: Bruce Williams <brucewms () pacbell net>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:25:16 -0700
How many PC's and components are 'Made in China'? In the dark ages, I worked for Williams Electronics. We made Arcade Games *blush*. Once we found our custom chip was reverse engineered in Taiwan, and they were shipping knockoffs six weeks after we started shipping the real product. If true, these are not script kiddie type threats. I hate to say it, but 911 is an example that the unthinkable isn't. Bruce Williams "A healthy paranoia is the beginning of sound operations policy"
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of blitz Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:33 PM To: nanog () trapdoor merit edu Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must assume by now. Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a favor. Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that. At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese governmentwould actively fundcyberterrorism? Deepak Jain AiNET
Current thread:
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S., (continued)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Deepak Jain (Apr 25)
- Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Chris Adams (Apr 25)
- Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Scott Francis (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Deepak Jain (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. blitz (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Deepak Jain (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Joel Jaeggli (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. James (Apr 25)
- Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 25)
- Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. W. Mark Townsley (Apr 27)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Bruce Williams (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. blitz (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Johannes B. Ullrich (Apr 26)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. blitz (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. measl (Apr 25)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Eric Germann (Apr 26)
- RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Chad Oleary (Apr 26)
- Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. Jim Mercer (Apr 26)