What is new. Almost any entry code has 1 billion possible ways of being failed, or there abouts. Did you know that. Nothing is fail safe.

So the federal government keeps leaving its "cyber doors" wide open - and intruders keep getting into government computers - so now they are going to "solve" this problem by passing a bunch of meaningless laws, creating yet another layer of bureaucracy within the vaunted DHS, and telling all of us who have been successfully protecting our networks and systems for years how we now need to do our jobs. Hot dog!

China ?....our buddies are a threat ?...really ? Could we have a Senate sub-committee study that ? .....after the fact of course.

i'd worry more about 12/21/2012life on earth will not be the same

Come on, you can't tell me that with all of the CIA, NSA wizards and computer science professors out there in the US, we can't come up with secure US DOD computer systems?

Why are those critical government computers connected to the public Internet anyway? What not on a more secure private network where they'd presumably be immune from outside attack?

First of all, why are we doing so much business with China? It is totally rediculous that we trust a foreign country to make so many products that are sent here. Now, here is the result. The very one that we giving all this business to, is the one we have to fear! Totally and absolutely INSANE.....

Ahh, it gets even better. Who better than the NSA to monitor our computer traffic. Oh and don't mind the additional 2,000 government jobs needed to manage the program.

What ever happened to the idea of smaller government. I wonder if Haliburton has a subsidiary that will help the government out with this.

President Bush and his people want american people to focus on other part of the world, but not on Iraq. ANd they chose China. First was the made-in-China. When that was fading after mattel appolozied, they told media that China is the major threat in cyberspace.
Come on, Who are they trying to foo? Let us focus on the war on Iraq, Shall we?

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I submit a vote of "no confidence" in my country's government... God help us all.

Welcome in the NEXT ATTACK upon the internet... all in the name of PROTECTING YOU (of course!) Bush will attempt to clamp down on free flowing communication.... mark my word.

keep the nation terrified... pump billions into monitoring everyones personal liberties under the guise of protection... repeat

If you are concerned about cyberwar, just wait until the 2008 election! Who's
turn is next, Florida had a chance; then
Ohio. Who will be next on the NRC agenda? Time for the people to wake up and throw the scroundels out!

keep the nation terrified... pump billions into monitoring everyones personal liberties under the guise of protection... repeat

mantra from a well known fascist

I am almost convinced that all the above cyncism about this being a distraction for the current Administration may be true.
Still there is one factor overlooked.
Richard Clark I believe, was at odds with this administration and was in escence driven out as the Head of the "Terrorist" watchdog agency because of his warnings.
If you listen to him, he has been pointing to this for some time. His latest novel "BreakPoint", while a crumby bit of writing, warns of this very thing. A grain of salt.

Why are we not confronting them head on? We do trade with them then why are we not doing trade with someone else?

This is like blaming the bridge collapse on the pigeon poops.

The story about Chinese hacking of American computer systems is incomplete. Tell the rest of the story. How Bill Clinton de-classified computer technology and then gave it to the Chinese. How among other things, that technology is no doubt being used to improve guidance systems of Chinese nuclear weapons delivery systems. Tell us how Bill Clinton sold us out!

Much of America's critical infrastructure is privately owned - Banks, Utilities, etc. We as citizens should insist that computer products be tested by independent 3rd parties like NSS Labs prior to installing them in critical infrastructure.

There are so many new technologies whose development has been outsourced. Plus, China in particular loves to pirate software and reverse engineer computer hardware (such as Cisco Routers).

The administration was warned formally in early 2002 by leading scientists in the industry. And the warnings started by Dick Clarke and others long before then. So this isn't a diversion by the administration. This is an administration that has been asleep at the wheel and is finally waking up. And before we go blaming Bush alone, Dick Clarke was there warning Clinton before him and Clinton did nothing either.