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- ahhell, on 04/21/2009, -3/+79Why is any of that ***** on internet accessible computers?
- altgeeky1, on 04/21/2009, -1/+48Won't they get the specs anyways when the parts production is outsourced?
- RumpleForeskin3, on 04/21/2009, -0/+40Because they have to be able to Twitter too, duh
- chompapotamus, on 04/21/2009, -0/+29From slashdot:
They probably trickled it out over a long period. The more interesting question is how long ago the DoD noticed the breach and started providing doctored information. In the Soviet era, it was common to use this kind of thing for misinformation. Once a project has been compromised, you feed plausible-looking but wrong information down the leaking conduit for as long as possible. There was an interesting example of this posted on Wikileaks a year or so ago, of an American nuclear bomb design obtained from the Russians, which contained a few minor and difficult-to-find design flaws that would have prevented the bomb from actually working if it had been built along those line
also:
the secret data wasn't on the internet, according to the article. It was not compromised. Only "sensitive" data was compromised. So while they might be able to infer information about the fighter, and its capabilities, they don't have the design and code for it. - inactive, on 04/21/2009, -2/+29Should have installed ZoneAlarm.
/s - k3nshady89, on 04/21/2009, -4/+29Its probably the Chinese government again.
- Solkre, on 04/21/2009, -0/+24The Administrator password is password.
- RumpleForeskin3, on 04/21/2009, -1/+25Now the Nav systems on the jets all say:
ZEROCOOL WUZ H3R3 - jrattner1, on 04/21/2009, -0/+23***URGENT: SOMEONE LOCATE MATTHEW BRODERICK**
- RichMUrrills, on 04/21/2009, -2/+20Get Bill Gates in here!
- ddizzle, on 04/21/2009, -6/+18it was also reported that the gov't will continue their support for Microsoft Bob.
- inactive, on 04/21/2009, -0/+11April 1st - Conficker update scare AND The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 was introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senators John D. Rockefeller (D-WVA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). Conficker has been keeping DNS servers busy by constantly registering junk domains and using them to help proliferate the worm further. No DNS = Bad for the last bastion of free thought and information.
"The Internet should never have been invented." J. Rockefeller
April 8th - Chinese and Russian Energy Grid Ninjas invade? Seriously as if they weren't always there just waiting for an opportunity? No Power = Also very bad for the last bastion of free thought and information.
April 21st: Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. OMG. What happen?!
It's just weird that as if by some dark magic that the internet is suddenly becoming some sort of unspeakable evil entity that is dangerous to national security.
To be continued... - divinediva, on 04/21/2009, -10/+21The cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing.
- aegis17, on 04/21/2009, -0/+11Wow, I had no idea we had six times the world's gdp in taxes... Goddamn those cyberyuppies and their thieving more money than the world has!
- moxley, on 04/21/2009, -1/+11um...no - but many agencies would sure like you to believe that; because then it is a lot easier to get things like internet filtering and reductions of freedom on the internet passed.
Cybercrime has always been an issue, and will always be an issue - but properly designed and administered systems mitigate that threat to a large degree - and infrastructure is not as threatened here as they'd like people to believe.
In the past 2 years the amount of attention this is getting has increased by orders of magnitude - some of which indicates that it is a real concern as the world becomes more networked, but I have seen several alphabet agency press releases in the past 2 years about how "hackers can cut the power grid," and referring vaguely to a situation where this happened. One thing they never seem to mention in this articles is that it happened in some former soviet bloc country with old, relatively unprotected infrastructure that is connected to the net.
Is it a concern? Yes, it is - but is it much worse than it used to be? IMO not to the degree that the media is pushing... I think there are top men (and women) working on it...Top men (and women). - thinman1189, on 04/21/2009, -2/+12Hack the planet?
- Murrdogg, on 04/21/2009, -0/+9Funny, this is exactly how the plot in "Breakpoint" by Richard Clark started. (It ended up not being the Chinese, but someone wanting us to think it was..
- hockeysmurf, on 04/21/2009, -10/+18The propaganda about the cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing.
- ctiger2, on 04/21/2009, -0/+8Ask the Chinese if they'll take that 300 billion off our debt bill.
- borez, on 04/21/2009, -2/+9Hasn't the Pentagon been informed about the use of non internet accessible stub networks for sensitive projects and information? I mean who in their right minds puts ***** like this on-line?
- macfan93, on 04/21/2009, -0/+7The cyberspies then proceeded to replace all documents with lolcats and child porn.
- bigteebo, on 04/21/2009, -2/+8Let's connect everything to the internetweb.
- CVL4317, on 04/21/2009, -0/+6and they found: damn, it is just another sinkhole...
- masamunecyrus, on 04/21/2009, -0/+6It should be important to note that the Joint Strike Fighter program is not the "U.S.'s fighter" -- hence the name JOINT Strike Fighter. More accurately, the F-22 Raptor is the US's fighter.
The development of the JSF is mainly funded by the US, but the development costs are estimated only around $40 billion, with the purchase of 2,400 increasing that total above $200 billion. Foreign countries plan to purchase a total of over 3,100, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter# ... - WMurderface, on 04/21/2009, -0/+6FTA:
"The spies could not access the most sensitive material, which is kept on computers that are not connected to the Internet"
Anything that is Secret, Top Secret, etc., would not be on the internet-connected computers. Whatever these guys copied, it was Unclassified or For Official Use Only, which should only be information that cannot cause any damage to our national security when something like this happens. - videogamechamp, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6This is how technology advanced. Military spending spurs innovation, and always has. If anyone is going to teach a plane how to fly itself, safely, it's going to be the government with a ridiculous payroll. Not to say that this is how money is best spent, but don't say it isn't going to advance technology.
- areber04, on 04/21/2009, -0/+5Was this sarcasm or have you never heard of SELinux?
- chesterogilvie, on 04/21/2009, -0/+5Oh *****! LEGISLATE!!!!!!!!!!
- khimairaGT, on 04/21/2009, -0/+5thanks john madden
- areber04, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6Maybe because it's a program spanning multiple companies that need to cooperate and share data?
- 12Hundred, on 04/21/2009, -2/+6No. Crab People.
- latrosicarius, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4Well, at least they had their Norton running.
- geoken, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4I think Jeff Goldbloom would be of more assistance here. That is, once the President stops listening to his war mongering military advisor and realizes that, despite his disheveled appearance, Goldblooms highly unorthodox idea "Just might work".
- stubear, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4And you know this is the result of a WIndows vulnerability how? 9 times out of 10 when the article doesn't specify it's a UNIX based OS at the core of the security breach, especially if the article is on a tech blog or news site. You do know people were hacking into systems LONG before Windows was around, right?
- Yage2006, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4I find the fact the USA spends 300 billion on a plane a hell of a lot more shocking then the program being hacked into.
What a tremendous waste of resources. - chesterogilvie, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4You're getting buried but honestly I think all the "CYBERHACKER!!" news is priming the pump for internet regulation. If your project is being hacked then find a way to work where sensitive data cannot be accessed instead of passing legislation that will ruin the internet. But that's not what they want, they want more control and power.
- saranagati, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4uhmm, ever heard of selinux? that was designed by the NSA. I'm sure that they didn't go through all the trouble of creating that to not use it.
- Suzilla, on 04/21/2009, -2/+5No. Cylons.
- areber04, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3It was 4chan!
- tymez, on 04/21/2009, -1/+4I bet they were using Mac....no wait Windows.....damn it.....it was Linux...!!!
- DigDugDigger, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Wouldn't these types of files be encrypted in case they fell into the wrong hands at least?
TrueCrypt is not new. - renorydazbp, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Wow, someone that actually knows what there talking about gets dugg down. Interesting, I for one know and agree with what you're saying. Don't blame America for spending so much on a plane when your country probably is invested too.
- masamunecyrus, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Except the Chinese government accuses the US of racism and says that we want nothing more than to bring upon the firey downfall of China whenever we suggest that they're cyber-spying. -_-
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3cyberspies...I'm sick of seeing normal terms converted to "high-tech" by adding cyber in front of them.
- simbait, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Scare tactics,
Also why put Military plans on an open network, with 1 billion you may easily build your own internet with brand new lines. Building using existing lines as a level 2 transport more like 1 million. All cost are US military grade.
See my other comment later for other "conspiracy" theory. - Kyzzyxx, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Why do I feel like I am being misled....
- simbait, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Numerous JSF clones will be available soon at every corner in honk-kong and online on chinese e-commerce web-sites. Priced at 1/3 of the original but with the tech specs cut by 2/3.
- RossDuprey, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3"your country's defense priorities boggle the mind"
more like "my countries offensive priorities boggle free minds' -
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