White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition

[MADem]

41. China has been down this road since the eighties, when they were stealing and copying

videos and DVDs and CDs and tapes and software and other intellectual property. The Chinese actively surveille all net activity that they can get their arms around, but no one seems to want to confront that elephant in the room. They certainly aren't doing any "curtailing" now, are they? Where's the irritation about their activities? They execute thousands every year, they operate re-education and work camps where people who run afoul of their directives disappear, and this isn't about "Bush and Blair." Bush's overreach and Dumb War approach to our place in the world was stupid, but that was then--this is now.

This is about US national security and the security of our allies. Should we fire up a Unit 61398 of our own, and "get professional" about this stuff, because we've seen how well it's worked hiring HS dropouts who lie on their resumes....?

Leave a comment on a web page, and poof--your computer is talking to the Chinese...ain't that special?

The group often compromises internal software "comment" features on legitimate web pages to infiltrate target computers that access the sites.[10][11] The collective has stolen trade secrets and other confidential information from numerous foreign businesses and organizations over the course of seven years such as Lockheed Martin, Telvent, and other companies in the shipping, aeronautics, arms, energy, manufacturing, engineering, electronics, financial, and software sectors.[5]

Dell SecureWorks says it believed the group includes the same group of attackers behind Operation Shady RAT, an extensive computer espionage campaign uncovered in 2011 in which more than 70 organizations over a five-year period, including the United Nations, government agencies in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam were targeted.[2]

The attacks documented in the summer of 2011 represent a fragment of the Comment group's attacks, which go back at least to 2002, according to incident reports and investigators. FireEye, Inc. alone has tracked hundreds of targets in the last three years and estimates the group has attacked more than 1,000 organizations.[6]

Most activity between malware embedded in a compromised system and the malware's controllers takes place during business hours in Beijing's time zone, suggesting that the group is professionally hired, rather than private hackers inspired by patriotic passions.[9] The Unit is belived to be "staffed by perhaps thousands of people proficient in English as well as computer programming and network operations."[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398


They aren't just after our shit--they're after EVERYONE's shit.