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

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> China and the US are so friendly that I'm sure we're spying on each
> other as much as possible

Who is the bad guy? :)

Anyway, during G8 it was China which pressured Bush on enviromental 
issues, no?


> 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
> > > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> > >
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