@Kim, thanks for the post. I think best response to this would be to hack the hackers. US should build a team of hackers who are constantly monitoring these hackers through IP and should prevent any future hacking attempts.
I don't believe the Times is consciously a vehicle for disinformation, but there's certainly disinformation out there which the Times, like any other news organization, is capable of reproducing. Iraq is a good example.
I am sorry, I might sound a little bit paranoic, but when they say- these are hackers from China or these are hackers from Iran or these are bad guys from another country we don't like, how can you be sure, that these ARE people from Iran or China and these attacks are real, and that's not just another attempt of Mass Media to strengthen the image of the main american enemy, if James Bond doesn't fight Russians, Nothern Koreans or Islamic terrorists anymore.
Schneier's thinking is always stimulating, but I think the problem here is what the cyberespionage capacities imply for cyberwar capacities. And while I don't think we should be prompted not to engage in a cyber arms race, I do think we should get real about cyberdefenses.
Respected security blogger Bruce Schneier notes that what the Chinese is doing isn't cyberwarfare so much as cyberespionage -- and espionage is business as usual for nations. "These attacks happen all the time, and just because the media is reporting about them with greater frequency doesn't mean that they're happening with greater frequency." He says the military is going for a greater power grab in cyberspace. "I don't see any good coming from this."
Thanks for providing these New York Times articles. A lot of times we hear about Chinese hackers, but this level of detail really puts a mental picture in my mind. We're battling a new kind of war that I don't think is being given the proper attention it deserves. I'm not quite understanding why the United States is not doing more to take on the Chinese - although maybe we are and it is being kept covert.
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