Return to Article: U.S., British officials target Chinese as source of cyberattacks
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American Taxpayer, it was multi-generational Japanese (and Japanese-Americans) that were interned during WWII and, thankfully, that was later acknowledged as a great injustice.
You might wish to research the 442nd Regimental Combat team before using these noble Americans as a shining example of American justice. It would seem to be more a glaring example of American xenophobia.
Other than that, I must agree, we do need to do something.
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It looks like our great country is being slowly hacked away by cyberattacks and illegal immigrants. Yes, we need to go after the hackers and if it's China, stop all trade with the enemy. Who poisoned our Pet Food, who poisoned our food (with unsanitary conditions), and now who is attacking our cyber networks? Only in America would a foreign country be allowed to attack our networks and we continue to buy their products. Our leaders need to wake up to the fact that many foreign countries hate Americans.
Only in America would illegals be allowed to demonstrate and allowed to make demands to gain instant citizenship! That's when they should have been rounded up (the same as the Chinese during WWII, it's not impossible) processed for Citizenship, Green Cards, or Deportation. They must become a citizen within 5 years or be deported with their families, no exceptions. Place a heavy fine on all employers (even domestic help) for hiring illegal immigrants without legal papers. Deport all illegals with an illegal Social Security numbers and bar them from the country. Bar all criminals from the country. The longer the illegals are allowed to remain in the US the more children they will have and our Social Services, Education systems, and Medical facilities will continue to be drained & overburdened. Set aside one day a week for all illegals to be registered, fingerprinted, picture identification, residence, and processed. Get control of this issue!
Wake up Americans before it's too late; neither of these issues will go away on their own.
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Bush needs to stop beating the war drum on Iran and concentrate his abilities (LOL) on China.
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Brenda (Dec. 5, 9:29 AM posting) stated it nicely except the decisions that our government officials MUST make are straightforward and SHOULD NOT be difficult!
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There is one think I must say about JTPalmer's comment. Yes, they could dump our dollars, causing a catastrophic nose dive in its value, but if they are indeed our biggest creditor, then logic would dictate they have a vested interest and would want us to succeed financially. To cause the dollar to lose value would be self defeating.
But then the frog never could understand why the scorpion on its back would strike it mid stream.
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China is our biggest creditor. The Chinese government own vast sums of US Dollars and hold enoumous amouns of the National Debt, (as well as the business properties noted by Ms. Brenda (posted below)). We owe them so much money that they can already hurt us economically. All they have to do is sell Dollars and buy Euros, and watch the dollar decline further in international markets, (and we use these dollars to buy oil). This is somewhat of an oversimplification, but the vulnerability of the US to China is very clear, and covers more than unsecure networks open to cyber-attack.
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I hope the adminstration truly understands the consequences if we don't pay close attention to this. This will come back to haunt us if we ignore this dilemma. We need to be proactive not reactive.
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Finally, people are waking up to find that China is our number one, biggest threat to the Western world; it is eating our bread and butter while we watch daytime and night time favorite tv shows! Economically, productivity and apparently, intelligently we are behind the race! If they, are in fact waging a cyberattacks, then we are in deep trouble; we have seen them purchase many organizations in U.S. such as parts of IBM, oil companies, financial institutions, etc. Where will this end, if our government doesn't step up to the plate and say enough is enough; China is one of our "favored" trading partners!! What is wrong with this picture? It is time for our government officials to step up to the plate and make some difficult decisions and stop the nonsense of favored trade agreements, stop the economical benefit give away to foreign nations; stop allowing out-sourcing of decent jobs;we need to pay the price now in order to continue to have what our "forefathers" fought, died and lost everything...we, as a nation, has forgotten how to produce and manufacture items in the U.S.; it is sad indeed when we cannot produce an American made, safe toy at a reasonable price!
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The nation that developed the internet ought to recognize the importance of strong cyber defenses and capabilities in this area. If the Chinese are hacking our systems and disrupting our IT flow, we ought to be returning the favor in spades, to send a message to them that this will not be allowed. We have plenty of good hackers in this country why not put them to work. Of grave concern ought to be the ability of the Chinese to steal trade and intellectual property secrets from U.S companies. Nor, are the Chinese the only ones we ought to be watching. Many other countries are equally willing and capable of this type of theft. One can compete quite effectively if you can skip all the research and development costs and go direct to stealing this material. It means jobs to the American people, and it impacts our economy, and our national leadership ought to be addessing the issue.
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We should not be placing business interests ahead of national security interests. Our national infrastructure is totally dependent on computer networks and a massive denial of service attack would render those networks useless. China's prosperity over past decade or so is due largely to significant investments from U.S. companies, and from the sale of Chinese products in U.S. markets. If we want to send China a message that we mean business, all we have to do is cut them off. Without the income derived from the U.S. economy, China's economy would suffer significantly. Or we could sit back and bury our heads in the sand, all the while watching our technological advantage disappear over the horizon along with the setting sun!
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I can't imagine that we're not doing the same thing back, unless our Government is as totally clueless regarding cyberwarfare as I am (which I wouldn't doubt). The questions are: Can we cripple them before they cripple us? And, will the country (US) fall apart when our computer networks drop? Whatever happened to the o-n/o-f-f switch? How about just temporarily disconnecting our networks from the internet during an attack? Or, just knock the power out in all of China's whopping two or three power plants?
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