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Chinese hackers compromise US weapons' designs: Report

In some part of the world, that's translated into "All your post is shiite and ballocks then" in English.

Of course, probably in your part of the world, this would mean "Glorious Internet Warrior" lol

The scheiß and ball posts are intended for your kind of people and since you feel so compelled to answer my s&b posts, I must have done it right. :)
 
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Götterdämmerung;4359915 said:
The scheiß and ball posts are intended for your kind of people and since you feel so compelled to answer my s&b posts, I must have done it right. :)

One thing you need to know, both me and Gambit did not answer post here for you sir, no sir we don't

We answer post, no matter how ridiculous that is for the user of this forum, if by answering Internet Warrior post could make the world a better place as well as showing the world the how of poor quality the internet warrior make out to be, we are gladly oblige to answer your post, no matter how shiite and balls that is.

Each post bring your stupid comment further, and each post, the world recognise your "knowledge" a bit better, it would be stupid to NOT answering your post. The more you post, the more you got to show your idiotic side, why not??
 
One thing you need to know, both me and Gambit did not answer post here for you sir, no sir we don't

We answer post, no matter how ridiculous that is for the user of this forum, if by answering Internet Warrior post could make the world a better place as well as showing the world the how of poor quality the internet warrior make out to be, we are gladly oblige to answer your post, no matter how shiite and balls that is.

Each post bring your stupid comment further, and each post, the world recognise your "knowledge" a bit better, it would be stupid to NOT answering your post. The more you post, the more you got to show your idiotic side, why not??

You needed three days for this? :lol:
 
Götterdämmerung;4371619 said:
You needed three days for this? :lol:
To expose your idiotic side? Not really. Just having fun...
 
When it comes to compromise US weapons' designs, USA should more worry about cyber-security in its allied states.

For example the successful case of compromise of classified Aegis Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System operational data.

SUBJECT: INFORMATION SECURITY: AN ALLIANCE PRIORITY Classified By: Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer; Reasons: 1.4 (b/d) ¶1. (S) Summary: In tandem with the deepening of our bilateral alliance, the amount of information -- diplomatic, technical, intelligence, and operational -- provided to Japan has necessarily expanded exponentially over the past decade. Our ability to maintain momentum on information sharing, however, has been challenged by a series of unauthorized disclosures of classified information, including highly sensitive Aegis technical data. The Aegis case in particular has revealed serious gaps in Japan's structures for protecting classified information and conducting counter-intelligence investigations. Interventions by senior U.S. officials have alerted Japanese leaders to the extent of the problem. It is crucial that the U.S. government follow-up now by laying out a detailed roadmap to enhance Japan's ability to protect information. To ensure that this process remains credible, there needs to be a clear inter-agency message that future information sharing will be contingent on Japanese progress in correcting institutional and legal shortfalls. End Summary.


The Stakes ---------- ¶2. (S) The transformation of the U.S.-Japan Alliance over the past ten years has fundamentally altered the requirements for sharing information with Japan. As Japan has taken on new responsibilities within the alliance, such as providing enhanced operational support for U.S. forces and engaging in deeper cooperation on ballistic missile defense (BMD), there has been a corresponding need for greater information sharing. Providing Japan with sensitive diplomatic, technical, intelligence, and operational data is fundamentally in the U.S. national interests. This information is used to protect our forces from current threats and to plan effectively for future regional contingencies. As Japan accepts a more active role within the alliance, equipping the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) with our most advanced systems will enhance our deterrent capability in the region and improve interoperability. In coming years, we expect information sharing related to BMD to contribute directly to the defense of the U.S. homeland.


The Challenge ------------- ¶3. (S) The fact that effective information sharing is so crucial to our own interests makes the recent disclosure of classified data so serious. A certain amount of unauthorized disclosures is inevitable in any country -- some people will leak for monetary, ideological, or simply "vanity" reasons. Recent incidents in Japan, however, suggest that the problem is more systemic, both in terms of Japan's structures for protecting information, and in terms of Japan's lack of appreciation for the counterintelligence problem it faces. Over the past year, we have seen damaging disclosures of intelligence data related to the DPRK's July 2006 missile launches, discussions in the press on sensitive bilateral planning activities, and the loss of operational data from laptop computers via commercial internet file sharing services.


¶4. (S) The most troubling recent episode relates to classified Aegis operational data found in the home of an uncleared Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) member in January whose spouse is a PRC citizen found to be residing illegally in Japan. While a technical assessment of impact of the data compromise is still ongoing, initial analyses suggest that the information, if obtained by potential adversaries, might undermine the defenses of both U.S., Japanese, and other allied Aegis-equipped vessels. The U.S. government has registered our concerns about the case at senior Japanese political levels. This has resulted in Japan taking policy-level steps to assuage our concerns, including by committing to participate in a Bilateral Information Assurance Task Force (BIATF).

¶5. (S) High-level commitments of cooperation notwithstanding, the actions of Japanese agencies involved in the Aegis investigation have deepened longer term concerns over the Japanese government's ability to conduct effective counter-intelligence (CI) operations and investigations. Although the National Police Agency (NPA) has the stated lead on CI investigations, the MSDF and Kanagawa Prefectural Police (KPP) have been involved in the Aegis case. Both the MSDF and NPA have held back cooperation with U.S. and other Japanese agencies involved in the case. For example, the MSDF, NPA and KPP have strongly resisted U.S. efforts to obtain full access to the original hard drive required for forensic analysis. The embassy is also frequently in the position of learning new details about the investigation from leaks that appear in the press, rather than directly from Japanese officials. From what has been shared, it appears that the NPA is focused on achieving the quickest possible resolution to the case at the expense of establishing whether the data was obtained by potentially hostile governments. Assessing the Problem ---------------------

¶6. (S) The MSDF Aegis disclosure and problematic response are symptomatic of broader weaknesses in Japan's information assurance structure. Among the more serious challenges in fixing this structure are: -- The absence of an information security culture: The Aegis case demonstrates that new laws and procedures alone are not enough to safeguard sensitive bilateral information in Japan. Classified information handled by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and SDF personnel is covered by the Defense Secrets Act, which mandates strict penalties for unauthorized disclosure; MOD also has a relatively robust process for background and security investigations, particularly for those with routine access to intelligence information. Despite these rules, MOD and SDF personnel are regularly the source of the most serious leaks of classified U.S. information. In many cases, media leaks are also sourced back to either senior officials seeking advantage over other agencies in the budget process or "vanity" leaks by mid-ranking officials looking to impress journalists. -- Weak OpSec training/practices: The Aegis case and recent series of disclosures via internet file sharing programs suggest a pattern of poor electronic information security. The existence of an ongoing military officer/journalist exchange programs between a major daily newspaper (Sankei) and the SDF also illustrates a broader naivety about the CI threat and lack of concern for OpSec. -- Lack of common security clearance system: There is no common standard background investigation or clearance system across the Japanese government. The deficiency exacerbates the stovepipping of information and leads to inconsistent screening for sensitive positions. -- Uncoordinated CI structure: The Cabinet Office, MOD, and SDF components lack independent CI structures, leaving CI responsibilities to the Public Security Information Agency (PSIA) and the NPA. While the PSIA actively cooperates with U.S. counterparts on CI-related activities, it lacks the resources and authority to conduct CI investigations. For its part, the NPA works poorly with Japanese and U.S. national security agencies when a case involves potential prosecution. The NPA's effectiveness on CI is further limited by the nature of its relationships with local police departments. While local police departments nominally report to NPA, in reality NPA exerts little control over the actual conduct of an investigation. Additionally, there is no framework for local police to handle classified information they may come across during an investigation. Charting a Way Forward ----------------------

¶7. (S) Recent interventions on the Information Assurance issue by the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Director for National Intelligence (DNI), and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) have succeeded in alerting Japan's political leadership to the seriousness with which the U.S. government views the problem. Fixing the problem, however, will take a sustained effort that involves all U.S. agencies engaged in managing the alliance. Delivering a consistent inter-agency message is a pre-requisite. Japanese agencies will try to resist change by waiting out the current Japanese political leadership and attempting to maintain a business-as-usual relationship with their U.S. counterparts.

¶8. (S) It will also be important for the inter-agency community to agree on both potential rewards and disincentives to ensure that Japan follows through on its information assurance commitments. The first step will be to define what leverage exists to encourage Japanese cooperation. We must convince Japan that a compromise of information by Japan is not a Japanese problem alone, bur rather an alliance problem that undermines the security of both our countries. On the incentive side, we should look for training opportunities and bilateral structures that will build good practices. Finalizing a General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) is a good first step towards creating a common system to protect sensitive data, that institutionalizes access, transparency, and accountability.

¶9. (S) As far as negative pressure points, we need to carefully weigh the costs and benefits of any decision to curtail ongoing or potential future information exchange initiatives. Much of what we are doing now is critical to our own national security. Upgrading Japan's Aegis fleet with SM-3 missiles, for example, will contribute directly to the defense of our forces in the region. In contrast, although there is benefit to U.S. forces of developing an SM-3 missile maintenance facility in Japan, the Japanese political interest in such a facility may make our decision on whether to proceed a useful source of leverage to galvanize Japanese political leadership attention. Japan's proposal at the May 1, 2007 Security Consultative Committee (2 2) for a comprehensive information sharing roadmap is another possible source of leverage. Looking to the End State ------------------------

¶10. (S) In our own internal discussions and in our bilateral interactions with Japan, it is important to emphasize that the ultimate objective is to create a sound bilateral structure through which we can further deepen our information sharing relationship with Japan. Given the strategic challenges that the United States and Japan face in this part of the world, it is critical to keep moving ahead on transforming our alliance with Japan. There is no inherent reason why Japan cannot adopt the systems to protect sensitive data that partners like the United Kingdom and Australia maintain. It will require a sustained, coordinated inter-agency effort on the part of both Japan and the United States to move our alliance to that level of cooperation. schieffer

Information Security: An Alliance Priority
 
Götterdämmerung;4378756 said:
Have some common sense! At 3:21 AM Central European Time, people are sleping here in Germany.

So are you saying I don't need to sleep or I don't have any other things to do??
 
Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group - By Matthew M. Aid | Foreign Policy

The ultra American hipocrisy..... Taking about being hack while in fact, US is the one massive hacking and stealing China data..

A ultra slap in US face. I am wondering how much China military secret is being stolen by US.

This weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour -- cyber-espionage -- a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and center with the revelations of sweeping U.S. data mining. The media has focused at length on China's aggressive attempts to electronically steal U.S. military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the "shirt-sleeves" summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into China's networks.

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When the agenda for the meeting at the Sunnylands estate outside Palm Springs, California, was agreed to several months ago, both parties agreed that it would be a nice opportunity for President Xi, who assumed his post in March, to discuss a wide range of security and economic issues of concern to both countries. According to diplomatic sources, the issue of cybersecurity was not one of the key topics to be discussed at the summit. Sino-American economic relations, climate change, and the growing threat posed by North Korea were supposed to dominate the discussions.

Then, two weeks ago, White House officials leaked to the press that Obama intended to raise privately with Xi the highly contentious issue of China's widespread use of computer hacking to steal U.S. government, military, and commercial secrets. According to a Chinese diplomat in Washington who spoke in confidence, Beijing was furious about the sudden elevation of cybersecurity and Chinese espionage on the meeting's agenda. According to a diplomatic source in Washington, the Chinese government was even angrier that the White House leaked the new agenda item to the press before Washington bothered to tell Beijing about it.

So the Chinese began to hit back. Senior Chinese officials have publicly accused the U.S. government of hypocrisy and have alleged that Washington is also actively engaged in cyber-espionage. When the latest allegation of Chinese cyber-espionage was leveled in late May in a front-page Washington Post article, which alleged that hackers employed by the Chinese military had stolen the blueprints of over three dozen American weapons systems, the Chinese government's top Internet official, Huang Chengqing, shot back that Beijing possessed "mountains of data" showing that the United States has engaged in widespread hacking designed to steal Chinese government secrets. This weekend's revelations about the National Security Agency's PRISM and Verizon metadata collection from a 29-year-old former CIA undercover operative named Edward J. Snowden, who is now living in Hong Kong, only add fuel to Beijing's position.

But Washington never publicly responded to Huang's allegation, and nobody in the U.S. media seems to have bothered to ask the White House if there is a modicum of truth to the Chinese charges.

It turns out that the Chinese government's allegations are essentially correct. According to a number of confidential sources, a highly secretive unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. government's huge electronic eavesdropping organization, called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, has successfully penetrated Chinese computer and telecommunications systems for almost 15 years, generating some of the best and most reliable intelligence information about what is going on inside the People's Republic of China.

Hidden away inside the massive NSA headquarters complex at Fort Meade, Maryland, in a large suite of offices segregated from the rest of the agency, TAO is a mystery to many NSA employees. Relatively few NSA officials have complete access to information about TAO because of the extraordinary sensitivity of its operations, and it requires a special security clearance to gain access to the unit's work spaces inside the NSA operations complex. The door leading to its ultramodern operations center is protected by armed guards, an imposing steel door that can only be entered by entering the correct six-digit code into a keypad, and a retinal scanner to ensure that only those individuals specially cleared for access get through the door.

According to former NSA officials interviewed for this article, TAO's mission is simple. It collects intelligence information on foreign targets by surreptitiously hacking into their computers and telecommunications systems, cracking passwords, compromising the computer security systems protecting the targeted computer, stealing the data stored on computer hard drives, and then copying all the messages and data traffic passing within the targeted email and text-messaging systems. The technical term of art used by NSA to describe these operations is computer network exploitation (CNE).
 
Götterdämmerung;4379690 said:
I would have believed you if you didn't post anything in those three days. ;)

you really want me to say it here??

I have better things to do than to reply your post. I will get there eventually, but your post isn't really REALLY that high up on my "To-Do" list.

Next time, try read between the line sir.
 

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