US Air Force to China: Our geeks can beat up your geeks

[icekid]

http://dailylark.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-air-force-to-china-our-geeks-can.html

please read the above site..

I think China knew about their hackers, I mean China controls everything from media to internet can't they control a bunch of hackers??

[bd popeye]

icekid..You need to post your thoughts on this situation in order for us to let this thread stand.. What do you think about it??

[Finn McCool]

It said that the Air Force ordered the entire command to be "virtual". That sounds to me like an old-fashioned cost cutting measure that conveinently sound totally appropriate to your cyber-warfare command. But when you think about it, doesn't it make more sense for the Command to have a physical HQ with paper files and all that other analog technology? That way they are effectively unhackable and thus internally secure. Being entirely digital leaves you open to lots of counter-counter-espionage.

[AssassinsMace]

So how does this mean that American geeks can beat up on Chinese geeks? Like the Pentagon or independent American geeks weren't doing this before? Remember the "I love you" virus? I think the majority still don't want to believe it was some Filipino kid that set it loose on the world. Or that Chinese woman that broke the West's top encryption code and was denied entry into the US for being a national security risk after being invited by top American encryption experts to speak at a conference to tell everyone how she did it. Sounds like denial is going to be a lot more of a national security threat than some hackers.

[RedMercury]

ppffftt. Even though everyone knows everyone is hacking, imagine the media fallout if China announced it will organize a cyberwarfare unit with specific offensive strategies. How come no one bats a lash when the US makes such a nakedly aggressive move?

[SteelBird]

A question, maybe a little innocent, can a Mac computer hack in a PC computer? I mean why don't they create different type of computers to prevent hackers?

[Quickie]

A question, maybe a little innocent, can a Mac computer hack in a PC computer? I mean why don't they create different type of computers to prevent hackers?

In theory it's possible to make a new unhackable computer system so long as you don't start to compromise it in return for more flexibility and efficiency OR the system's software algorithm gets so complicated that loopholes got created unintentionally or otherwise.

Talking about a new computer system, here is one that's based on the Loongson 2E/2F CPU - http://www.lemote.com. Click for english version - much less information though!

It consumes little power but runs only on Linux.

[King_Comm]

It consumes little power but runs only on Linux.
Too bad it runs Debian, would be more awesome if it runs Red Flag Linux.