Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked 180
SandmanWAIX writes "In an embarrassing revelation today it appears as though the blueprints to the new Australian federal intelligence agency ASIO headquarters have been stolen, reportedly by a cyber attack originating from China. Several other governmental departments have been reported as being breached also. The blueprints which have been compromised include the security system, comms network, floor plan and server locations of the new ASIO headquarters located in the Australian capital city, Canberra."
Re:how long will this behavior be tolerated... (Score:5, Informative)
How doe the fact that only 2.7% of US consumer spending [frbsf.org] is spent on Chinese goods fit into your little narrative?
The average US consumer can't buy a "Made in China" home, nor a "Made in China" car, nor "Made in China" food, nor "Made in China" gas. As it turns out, housing, transportation, and food makes up the majority of a consumer's spending.
Re:how long will this behavior be tolerated... (Score:5, Informative)
It was quite amazing in the 1980's when we discovered that East Germany was beaming low powered microwaves at the American embassy in West Berlin. The thought was that they were attempting to slowly degrade the health of our diplomats. It turns out that there were cylinders buried in the walls that were passive under normal conditions but under microwave energy would sympathetically resonate with the microwave signal modulated by the ambient sound. Clever stuff that, 30 years ago.
This is nothing compared to Xerox providing copiers to the Soviet government that recorded on film a copy of every page to be retrieved only by an authorized Xerox technician called when the copier failed because the film was full. Ah, those were easy days of spy. We got a lot of good stuff out of that, and Xerox got some special privileges as well, including the ability to run their own experimental nuclear reactor.
If you think this isn't still going on, and has gotten more clever, you're in denial. That is part of the backlash about other countries driving tech. If Intel doesn't provide the chipsets for Iran's nuclear ambitions how are we going to know what they're up to? China's RockTech doesn't care to report that stuff. They just want to sell chips.