| Source: (selected from hundreds as they're only repeating the press release from LM and offering analysis based on minimal info).
csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0529/How-bad-was-the-cyber-attack-on-Lockheed-Martin
So this is (as far as we know) nothing particularly new, but is it time that western nations take the offensive regarding Chinese (presumably but not confirmed in this instance) espionage efforts.
Should NATO get serious about developing its own offensive cyberwarfare capabilities? Should we regard the PRC as a hostile nation based on these attacks and drop the pretense that these attacks are not hostile military operations.
It seems to me that we in the west tiptoe around a nation that is openly hostile to almost all western interests. Is it time that the PRC gets the attention it deserves as an emerging economic and military threat?
Given their reliance on (cracked) western Operating Systems and western security software can't we give them a bloody nose in return? See how much of the Chinese infrastructure is critically vulnerable due to the inevitable lack of oversight in a bureaucratic command economy?
Or is all of the above happening and either being unreported or saved "for a rainy day" as it were.
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