Did Chinese Officials Copy U.S. Government Laptop Data To Hack Into Computers
May 30, 2008 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
The U.S. government is looking into allegations that Chinese officials snagged a laptop left unattended by a top U.S. official there, copied the data and then used it to try to hack into U.S. government computers.
The incident is alleged to have happened during Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez’s trip to Beijing in December. Gutierrez told the AP wire service he couldn’t comment on an ongoing investigation.
Since then, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, known as US-CERT, responded to computer network break-ins at least three times, the report says.
“The Pentagon, State Department and Commerce Department all have been victimized by widespread computer intrusions blamed on China since July 2006,” with the Commerce Department even having to unplug itself from the Internet, as a result, the article says.
Years ago, I read a book about conservation that suggested China was going
to start consuming more “Western” types of food, cars, etc. That has now come
to pass. Since China is financing our American debt in part and they have a
growing need to expand coupled with the fact that their large army has
attacked Japan and the Phillipines in the past for expansion–it might well be
in America’s best interest to start planning a “what to do” senario if worse comes
to worse. During Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were “talking peace” while
attacking the US. I have no information except that the Bible states the attacking
army will come from the North( possibly China?).