Posted on 06/05/2015 6:32:37 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
In case you missed it yesterday, there was a massive hack possibly exposing the personal information of at least 4 million U.S. federal government employees.
This morning reports show the hack came from the Chinese government, which has been engaged in a series of adversarial behaviors with its military toward the U.S. throughout the past two weeks. They're denying it and ironically asking for more trust.
China responded Friday to allegations it was involved in a hacking attack on U.S. government computers by saying such claims are unproven and irresponsible, and that it wishes the United States would trust it more.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular news briefing Friday that Beijing hopes the U.S. would be "less suspicious and stop making any unverified allegations, but show more trust and participate more in cooperation."
"We know that hacker attacks are conducted anonymously, across nations, and that it is hard to track the source," Hong said. "It's irresponsible and unscientific to make conjectural, trumped-up allegations without deep investigation."
Cybersecurity analysts who study hacking attacks believed to originate in China have cited evidence suggesting they are state-sponsored rather than independent actions, including that they seem to be highly organized teams that focus on the same kinds of targets, sometimes for years, and tend to work regular hours excluding weekends.
While the U.S. has been focused on chaos in the Middle East, China has been making big moves in the South China Sea by building entire islands dedicated to military force.
China has been extremely active in the South China Sea. Over the past 18 months, Beijing has been engaged in an aggressive campaign to build islands on three features in the region in an apparent effort to create new sovereign territory.
So far, it has built up some 2,000 acres -- the equivalent of about 1,500 football fields -- worth of territory on submerged reefs and rocks. As the building has continued, the threat to freedom of navigation -- including the United States -- has increased. Subi reef, for example, is a submerged feature that lies some 660 miles from the Chinese coast, yet it has been transformed into a massive artificial island, apparently to accommodate a 3,000-meter airstrip that could handle the largest military aircraft.
While China beefs up its military, we continue to cut ours. China is coming and we aren't prepared for it. What could possibly go wrong?
video at link ...
Ari Fleischer: 'I Guarantee You' Hillary's Emails Were Hacked (read by Iran, Russia, China?)
That's why.
“China: We Didn’t Hack You, America, Why Don’t You Trust Us?”
Unh, history, maybe? America is such an easy convenience store to knock over, the perpetrators keep coming back time after time. And they lie about it with impunity.
After all, it’s not like there were any, like, consequences, y’know? Because we’ve “decriminalized crime.”
Nothing... if you're a communist.
Well, except for this part:
" Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
As if the USA isn’t doing the exact same thing to every important nation on Earth. It’s too easy to get incredible amounts of information by hacking and just the reality of the modern world.
It’s also nearly impossible to prove the origin of the attacks by using various tricks. World Wars can now be started and fought with all nations denying they are doing any fighting.
Welcome to the New World...
The goal is to get info0rmation on government employees that are in positions of importance or influence so that they can be bribed or blackmailed.
Yep. But I’m saying every country on Earth with resources to do so does the same.
If you think the USA doesn’t collect dirt, embarrass or blackmail people that become a threat, I got a big bridge to sell ya
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