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03/27/12

Huawei Spying on Customer

Huawei - Mitt Romney's Bain Capital sold out 3Com to the Chinese

gAtO wRoTe - about the Chinese company Huawei (Shenzhen, China-based company) a long time ago with it’s ties to Rick Perry the governor of Texas and ex-Presidential bid and Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital that sold out 3Com and sold our national secrets to them. Now it finally falls on Australia to take the first step WHEN electoral fortunes are fading a good “reds under the beds” story can boost political stocks, but the row about Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei being barred from supplying equipment to the National Broadband Network puts a new twist on an old tactic. Generally it’s the Right that beats the red peril drum. Here in Australia it’s a Labor government claiming the NBN is too vital a piece of national infrastructure to be put at risk by buying equipment from China.

Huawei, which is second only to Sweden’s Ericsson in telecom equipment sales, was blocked on Monday from bidding on a $36 billion Australian national broadband contract. Security firm Symantec (SYMC, Fortune 500) ended in November because of Symantec’s concerns that its relationship with Huawei would prevent it from getting a sensitive U.S. government security contract.

Will this be the tipping point were we America stands up and see’s pass the profits and starts with looking at our nations cyber security survival. We hear that DHS and NSA and everyone is pushing for dollars $$ to fix our infrastructure but when will we start to stop the Chinese from stealing our intellectual capital that has made America great. Politicians need to take a look at what is the real problem like Rick Perry allowing dozens of Chinese companies to set up shop in Texas and claiming that they have such a great employment record at the cost of our national security.

gAtO is sad that we see the veterans of our great country without a job when we could be investing in Cyber Security training our young veterans in this field. Veterans have vital experience but as gAtO has found out personally the VA has a problem with allowing our veterans to get an education in this vital field of Internet Security. I like China don’t get me wrong and some of the accusation about China I suspect is nothing more that a scare tactic to get funding for political pet project. But if we start to training our veterans and anyone who wants this training we will not lose the cyber war- gAtO oUt 

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07/4/11

‘Glorious Mission,’ Chinese Video Game Targets U.S. Troops (VIDEO)

Its graphics are on par with Call of Duty, but Glorious Mission has a whole different perspective than what even the most experienced gamer might be used to.

It targets U.S. troops.

That’s right, developed by China’s Giant Network Technology Co. and backed by the People’s Liberation Army (P.L.A.) this first-person shooter paints U.S. soldiers as the enemy, according toWIred. Oddly enough, it’s also supposed to be modeled after the U.S. Army-made shooter gameAmerica’s Army.

While games like Homefront and the Call of Dutyseries have often poised Eastern Asian or Middle Eastern people as enemies without serious repercussions, some worry that this game leads to confusion between military thinking and simulation.

From Wired:

Amid Beijing’s apparent enthusiasm for Glorious Mission, some observers warn of conflating real warfare with mere simulations. “The game content and the values ??embodied in military thinking … are very different,” one Chinese Website warns. “Long-term use is not conducive to military education and training, and may even mislead officers and men.”

It could be one of a thousand factors that misleads Chinese trainees into thinking America is destined to be China’s enemy. And not just on digital battlefields.

Violent games such as these seem to increasingly stir controversy. In 2010, shortly following the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Cuban officials were apparently outraged at a sequence in which players “killed” Fidel Castro. However, Glorious Mission‘s military origins are a bit off-putting.

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06/29/11

China sets up “Online Blue Army”

Chinese military has set up ”Online Blue Army”, a dedicated web network aimed to beef up internet security of its defence installations from cyber attacks.

The “Online Blue Army” is based on the Peoples Liberation Army, PLA needs and enforcing the ability of Internet security protection is an important issue in its military training programs, Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said.

Gengs comments came in response to questions if the “Online Blue Army” is Chinas Internet squad aimed at carrying out attacks on other countries Internet systems, state run Peoples Daily reported. Geng said his country will not carry out cyber wars.

The PLA Daily had reported PLAs Guangzhou command had invested tens of millions of yuan in building the specialized Internet squad.

Geng said Internet security has become an international concern which affects not only the society but the military sector, adding that China, armed with comparatively lax online security protection is among the victims of Internet attacks.

The Daily said internationally, online military units have long been established. The United States destroyed Iraq’s air defence system using PC viruses during the Gulf War in 1991. Thereafter, the online army of the United States also played major roles in the wars in Kosovo and Iraq.

In addition to the United States, UK, Russia, Japan and India have established their online military units, Peoples Daily report said.

Li Li, a military expert at the National Defence University, said that compared with online military units of Western countries, China’s “Online Blue Army” is currently at its fledging period, and is more like an online manoeuvre mode than an organic, large-scale online army.

Zhang Shaozhong, a military expert and a professor from the PLA National Defence University, pointed out that though China’s dependence on the Internet is increasing, the root servers are not based in China.

In addition, various types of Internet hardware in China are made in the United States, including many types of software.

In this sense, China is only a computer “user,” and China’s Internet security is very fragile, he said.

“Just like the army and air forces, the ‘online blue army’ is a historical necessity. The reason is very simple.

“We must adapt to the new types of warfare in the information era. The ‘online blue army’ is of great strategic significance to China’s economic development and social stability,” Teng Jianqun, a research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, said.

 

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