According to the Associated Press:
Two congressmen, both longtime critics of Beijing's record on human rights, said the compromised computers contained information about political dissidents from around the world. One of the lawmakers said he'd been discouraged from disclosing the computer attacks by other U.S. officials.And we keep outsourcing our jobs and buying their cheap crap.
Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf said four of his computers were compromised, beginning in 2006. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said two of his computers were attacked, in December 2006 and March 2007.
Wolf said that following one of the attacks, a car with license plates belonging to Chinese officials went to the home of a dissident in Fairfax County, Va., outside Washington and photographed it.
During the same time period, The House International Relations Committee — now known as the House Foreign Affairs Committee — was targeted at least once by someone working inside China, said committee spokeswoman Lynne Weil.
Wednesday's disclosures came as U.S. authorities continued to investigate whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce Department computers.
The Pentagon last month acknowledged at a closed House Intelligence committee meeting that its vast computer network is scanned or attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times each day.
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The Bush administration has been increasingly reluctant publicly to discuss or acknowledge cyber attacks, especially ones traced to China.
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5 comments:
Thank you for sharing this, I hadn't been aware of it until now. Let's just sweep it all under the rug...
Yep. And odds are that the computers they're using to hack ours were made by ...US. It nauseates me that American companies sell equipment and software to regimes like China's, and are complicit in their efforts to censor information and oppress their people.
--Alex
I heard a report on NPR this morning that said Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) was very concerned about espionage during the Beijing Olympics with so many American tourists in attendance. The concern is that these Americans will take their laptops with them, affording unparalleled access to industrial and perhaps governmental secrets (not to mention the possibility of bring home viruses that can continue to gain access to more company and/or governmental data.)
I have no idea how reasonable a scenario this actually is.
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I was just writing about this myself on the Pop Culture Institute:
May 25th, 1999 - The US House of Representatives released the Cox Report which detailed China's nuclear espionage against the US over the prior two decades.
Whatever the variety of espionage, it's all spying, and it's all very worrying.
Are you really fucking surprised? Really, c'mon. You can't say that you didn't know this was going to happen sometime.
Key-ryst we've got some stupid incompetent people working for our government.
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