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RE: China Says It Has Suffered 'Massive' Internet Spy Damage


From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:51:41 -0400

China and the US are so friendly that I'm sure we're spying on each
other as much as possible

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

-----Original Message-----
From: rms () computerbytesman com [mailto:rms () computerbytesman com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:35 PM
To: Larry Seltzer
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] China Says It Has Suffered 'Massive' Internet Spy
Damage

Is China an adversary?  They hold something like a $1 trillion of U.S.
home mortgages.

I always we kind of spied on friends and foes alike.

Richard



Should we be hacking into the computer systems of our....adversaries?
Actually, I would think so.

And I would put out honeypots for my own adversaries to attack and 
hope they think they were successful. This sounds like a job for the 
Department of Electronic Disinformation.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of rms () computerbytesman com
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:00 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] China Says It Has Suffered 'Massive' Internet 
Spy Damage

It looks like there is contest now on by governments of the world to 
claim the title for the most insecure government IT systems! ;-)

Is Russia next?

Richard


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Via Reuters.

[snip]

China has suffered "massive" losses of state secrets through the 
Internet, a senior official said, as China faces reports that it has 
raided the computer networks of Western powers.

Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said his country 
was

the target of a campaign of computer infiltration and subversion and 
proposed a raft of counter-measures including toughened censorship, 
new security bodies and commercial controls.

He did not address recent Western allegations of cyber-spying against

China.

[snip]

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSPEK8648420070912

- - ferg

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--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net 
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