Best Headline EVER

by JASmius

"China Fingered (in Massive Series of Cyber Attacks)"

What would Joanie Laurer say? In this case, probably "ouch":

Experts are calling for greater Internet security measures in government in the wake of a massive wave of global cyber attacks that saw two Canadian government agencies' computer systems infiltrated by what experts suggest was an espionage operation.

A report by Internet security company McAfee said the attacks — which spanned at least five years — likely were perpetrated by a foreign government and could be very costly for Canadian firms competing in the global marketplace.

The report, released Wednesday, said that if even a fraction of the stolen data "is used to build better competing products or beat a competitor at a key negotiation . . . the loss represents a massive economic threat."...

The Canadian government was among 72 organizations, including the United Nations, U.S. government, defence contractors and other international companies, that were compromised, said the report.

Sure sounds like a ChiComm operation to me. It's advanced, technically superior, and so far under the radar the we're only discovering the Canadians had to discover it for us.

Shall we revisit the prophetic prognostications of Lev Navrozov?:

[L]et us recall that England became in the 17th century a strong military power due to its Industrial Revolution (spinning and weaving machines, Watt’s steam engine, the railway locomotive, and the factory system with its assembly lines). Arms that used explosives were called “firearms.” That was what war was like for about four centuries, including the past century: steel contraptions blasted out — by means of explosives — bullets, shells, bombs, etc., to kill enemy soldiers and destroy enemy installations.

Nano-weaponry makes it all as obsolete as firearms made bows obsolete in the 17th century....

All this may seem miraculous in 2008 just as firearms seemed miraculous in 1646. Yet the new epoch has come: The future world war will be a war of nano-weapons, not of firearms.

The advent of the epoch of firearms was fostered by the Industrial Revolution. There is no such nano-machinery revolution that would foster the production of nano-weaponry. My readers ask me where they can see nano-weapons as they can see firearms. Devoted to new weapons in all countries is the book Oblivion: America at the Brink by Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden (U.S. Army, retired). Bearden believes that the United States is “at the brink” in this respect. “If we are to survive, we shall need the most strenuous and rapid effort in our history, now.”

That quote was from....September 8th, 2008. Makes Lieutenant Colonel Bearden's words almost tragic, doesn't it?

Ever see Terminator III: Rise of the Machines? Think of General Brewster as Red Barry, and the ChiComms as Skynet. The only question for the rest of us is whether we can make it to Crystal Peak in time.

[cross posted at Hard Starboard]