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So here we are six plus years later, and China is hacking into the Pentagon. I don’t know about you. But I don’t think I need cheap Chinese crap that much. Also not overly concerned about Chinese face. Concern about Chinese loss of face is sort of like concern about a child who intends to hold his breath until his face turns blue. When Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu says China has specific laws about hacking, takes hacking very seriously and is often a victim of hacking, it makes me think. Why are we letting China have an Internet, anyway? Techies, please weigh in. If they don’t know how to be polite with it, why don’t we shut it down? A little shutdown … Internet, trade … could go a long way. A little pain now, a lot less pain later. It would be interesting to see what would happen if we even hinted that we’re thinking about it.
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The PRCA would just send a guy with a laptop to a Panera in San Jose to launch the zombie attacks. The correct answer is proper hardening of the DoD sites.
Being a jerk, I think a retaliation is order, as well. I bet our geeks are better than their geeks.
It’s not a question of whose geeks are better, it’s a question of whose geeks are allowed to act. If it were done here, someone in Congress or (more likely) the State Department would leak it to the press, who would then turn it into a cause célèbre between Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom, and Turtle Bay, all of them aching to have a good long satisfying cry with the PRC.