Since that's nothing but a conservative "think" tank, who gives a shiat.

mr_a: Seems a little harsh, no?

Most likely they mean that they pulled and then shredded some hard drives. But then, there are now hijacks that can infect the firmware of the motherboard or peripheral cards (like your NIC) that result in a reinfection even if you wipe the OS clean. So maybe they did shred their servers.


kingoomieiii: as well, with the amount of "WHY DIDN'T OBAMA STOP THIS" I'm seeing.

Congress and Obama could pass a regulation that expands the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to any company with sensitive information regarding American business interests. Businesses would flip out over the cost and conservatives would decry big government regulation, but it would help reduce the amount of industrial espionage conducted by foreign interests.

Warlordtrooper: Why should the government be protecting private businesses in the first place. That should be on the business themselves to pay for security.

So when a burglar breaks into a business and starts stealing merchandise, should a beat cop who happens to be walking by simply ignore it because the crime is occurring on private property? If a government agency notices a network intrusion against my company, I sure as heck would like to know it. That is a lot different than expecting the government to install firewalls, intrusion detection (IDS) and active security monitors (ASM) in front of my network.

I personally believe that it is within the right of the government to require corporations to have minimal levels of security on their networks if such requirements are deemed in the interest of national security and the stability of interstate commerce. But then, I do not believe that corporations have any natural right to exist and that the government can regulate them however it deems fit. Besides, not only do loose lips sink ships, but faulty firewalls foster financial fiascos.

If the government does get into the business of providing intrusion repulsion outside of their own networks, it should be limited to the edge routers that connect to international POPs. If China doesn't get its act together regarding attacks, then we block everything with a Chinese source address and a US destination address. If BGP just happens to be using the US as a route to a destination outside the US, then we let it pass regardless of source.

even China knows that the us chamber of commerce is bad for the world and it must be shut down before Gingrich becomes paranoid leader of the imprisoned world.

the chamber of commerce has been using its official-sounding name to appear to be way more important than it really is for many years.
i say let the other end of the sword cut them for once.

also, this isn't about US gov't secrets anyways, it's about tacitly sanctioned chinese hacking attempts on foreign intellectual material that have been constant for a decade.

I thought the Chamber was already under Chinese control.