Waiting For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?


	Waiting For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?

BartendingBear

4-2-2008 7:27 PM

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BartendingBear says:

It won't be a catastrophe; rather it's a continual leakage of information going on each day.

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    I think the Chinese government has been behind many, many attacks—penetrations. “Attacks” sounds like they’re destroying something. They’re penetrations; they’re unauthorized penetrations. And what they are trying to do is espionage. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4241"><SPAN class="fp_red">FP:</SPAN>
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