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China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 7:55:32 AM

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LONDON (AFP) - Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday.

The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China's President Hu Jintao.

"China is engaged in hostile intelligence activities, and instead of using the old-fashioned methods, they are focusing on electronic means to hack into systems to discover Britain's defence and foreign policy secrets, and they are technologically pretty advanced and adept at it," an unnamed government source told The Times.

Another senior government source, meanwhile, told The Independent: "Governments throughout the West have been aware of this for a number of years. It has been an ongoing practice by the Chinese. They are trying it all the time. The firewalls that need to go in are going in."

Both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence have declined to comment on the reports.

In Washington, the Pentagon said Tuesday that several nations and groups were trying to break into the US military's computer system after the Financial Times reported China's military had successfully hacked into the network in June.

Unanmed officials told the Financial Times the attack was by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and that it led to the shutdown of a computer system serving the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 8:01:02 AM

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as a hobby i read rare and unusual books. this has been going on for at least 10 yrs! cyber wars. the idea is to take down a grid. it isnt too differnet then war excercises. when i was in IT a few years back over 1/2 the viruses were from OUTSIE THE USA. im sure it is much worse now.

my buddy is a guru -hangs witht hat crowd. he said one of his buds atempted a hack into NXXA. the reply wiped his harddrive completly void of the operating system.

for the record- im not a hack. just to let you know.

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 8:12:44 AM

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yeah, someone has assured me on another thread that their idea of high tech is just dvds over there.

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 9:32:00 AM

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Boy...China sure do get around, don't it? Did they ever figure out how comprised the Pentagon computers are?

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 9:34:10 AM

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BTW, can anyone tell me what NXXA stands for?

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 9:42:53 AM

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Well China wont ever get to the big secrets this way. The Pentagon has the big secrets like concerning our advanced aircraft, nukes, and projects in development on closed networks. Which means you cannot access those computers from the internet because they are not connected to the internet. Same with NORAD's and NATO's main computer cores. In order to get that information, China would need to have a spy infiltrate and physically steal the data out. Which in those areas are extremely difficult to do.

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RE: China hacks British government computers - 9/6/2007 10:22:45 AM

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

Well China wont ever get to the big secrets this way. The Pentagon has the big secrets like concerning our advanced aircraft, nukes, and projects in development on closed networks. Which means you cannot access those computers from the internet because they are not connected to the internet. Same with NORAD's and NATO's main computer cores. In order to get that information, China would need to have a spy infiltrate and physically steal the data out. Which in those areas are extremely difficult to do.

Los Alamos--- Wen Ho Lee... This is anecdotally, of course. I believe he was cleared of the charges, however there have been many incidents in the last several years.

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