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China is blamed for hacking US satellites
COMPUTER HACKERS from China could have interfered with two US government satellites between 2007 and 2008.
The hackers, who allegedly were working on behalf of the Chinese military, gained access to the satellites on four occasions through a ground station in Norway, according to a US congressional commission report.
The suggestion comes from the final draft of the annual report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Bloomberg reports, that is expected to be released next month.
Although the satellites are not military ones, the incidents are perhaps warnings of more and worse to come.
"Such interference poses numerous potential threats, particularly if achieved against satellites with more sensitive functions," says the draft.
"Access to a satellite's controls could allow an attacker to damage or destroy the satellite. An attacker could also deny or degrade as well as forge or otherwise manipulate the satellite's transmission."
It is not known what happened during the attacks, but the incidents ranged in duration from two minutes to 12 minutes. The attacks are described as "interference", but could become much worse.
China could try to "compromise, disrupt, deny, degrade, deceive or destroy" US computer systems, according to the report, and could, "critically disrupt the U.S. military's ability to deploy and operate during a military contingency". µ
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I think the US government and military's dictionaries were hacked and someone put the definition 'chinese person' next to the entry 'hacker', and now confusion reigns.
And I expect the US suspects it was a chinese hacker that infiltrated their dictionary.
not an act of war because the Chinese got nukes on ballistic missiles (too.) US would've sent attack drones out had this been any other third world country without nukes.
Reader1,
I'm not sure which article you're reading but this one clearly says that the Chinese "gained access to the satellites on four occasions through a ground station in Norway" and that "the incidents ranged in duration from two minutes to 12 minutes"
What's not known is what they were doing in that time, but it seems obvious that they're feeling their way around how to access & control our satellites.
The paper claims it could be China merely based on the fact that China has written about the possibility of such a tactic. Yet, the way you phrased your article made it so certain it was China. And, 2007?? it's already 2011. What good does it do to infuriate Americans with groundless accusations. Not even China pulls these cold war cheap shots any more. Grow up, America.
And this is not an act of war because...?