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RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:06:09 -0700 (PDT)


Rounding up 1 significant figure would reduce their combat effectiveness
measurably.

The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a
missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.

The Chinese had the shenzhou 2 capsule in orbit for 7 months in 2001...

more recently shenzhou 3 went up with and safely returned nine eggs after 
108 orbits...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1948000/1948317.stm

One would suspect that that they're far more interested in launching 12-14 
ton commercial payloads with the long-march 2ea, then they are in blowing 
up the US.
 
We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less expensive to
create than invasion or nuclear weapons.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

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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 government would actively
fund
cyberterrorism?

Deepak Jain
AiNET




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