China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
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Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#2comforting, not.
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#3Wow, and almost a month after AmericaSpace.org broke this story.
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#4"Bockris further advises that interface with Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 is entirely compatible and yields optimal penetration capabilities, particularly with regard to existing military systems...."
"How about an AI?"
"Existing military systems and artificial intelligences."
"Jesus Christ. What did you call it?"
"Kuang Grade Mark Eleven."
"It's Chinese?"
"Yes."
Wiliam Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#5"Bockris further advises that interface with Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 is entirely compatible and yields optimal penetration capabilities, particularly with regard to existing military systems...." "How about an AI?" "Existing military systems and artificial intelligences." "Jesus Christ. What did you call it?" "Kuang Grade Mark Eleven." "It's Chinese?" "Yes." Wiliam Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
The fact that nobody has succeeded in translating Neuromancer to the big screen is a testament to Gibson's ability to make something that's usually so dry and technical truly come to life.
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#6"Bockris further advises that interface with Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 is entirely compatible and yields optimal penetration capabilities, particularly with regard to existing military systems...." "How about an AI?" "Existing military systems and artificial intelligences." "Jesus Christ. What did you call it?" "Kuang Grade Mark Eleven." "It's Chinese?" "Yes." Wiliam Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
The military and diplomatic communications of the preceding fifty years showed before the light of their minds. At the same time as they surveyed the satellite data, Mr. Slippery and Erythrina swept through these bureaucratic communications, looking carefully but with flickering speed at every requisition for toilet paper, every "declaration" of secret war, every travel voucher, everyone of the trillions of pieces of "'paper" that made it possible for the machinery of state to creak forward. And here the signs were much clearer; large sections were subtly changed, giving the same feeling the eye's blind spot gives, the feeling that nothing is really obscured but that some things are simply gone. Some of the distortions were immense. Under their microscopic yet global scrutiny, it was obvious that all of Venezuela, large parts of Alaska, and most of the economic base for the low satellite net were all controlled by some single interest that had little Connection with the proper owners. Who their enemy was still a mystery, but his works loomed larger and larger around them.
Vernor Vinge, True Names, 1981
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#7Nothing stays secret forever, so it's probably time to create new satellites with upgraded interfaces. Them's the breaks.
Off-shoring most electronics manufacture in the US is probably a "Battlestar Galactica" size mistake, though. Even if our super-military grade electronics are home grown, where will we get the expertise to continue to make such without a domestic industry?
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#8Wow, and almost a month after AmericaSpace.org broke this story. http://www.americaspace.org/?p=9946
This is from the "2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION" report. Just giving a breakdown of the current state. This was not a flash message or a breaking news report. The time for the breaking news was in '07 and '08 not in 2011 ;)
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#9Nothing stays secret forever, so it's probably time to create new satellites with upgraded interfaces. Them's the breaks. Off-shoring most electronics manufacture in the US is probably a "Battlestar Galactica" size mistake, though. Even if our super-military grade electronics are home grown, where will we get the expertise to continue to make such without a domestic industry?
What country do you think most of the advanced microprocessors are made in? The US has a lot of experience building super-expensive fabs and mass-producing amazingly complex microprocessors, which is why if you look into your computer, you'll notice that your processor was made in the US, not China.
Re: China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
#10Nothing stays secret forever, so it's probably time to create new satellites with upgraded interfaces. Them's the breaks. Off-shoring most electronics manufacture in the US is probably a "Battlestar Galactica" size mistake, though. Even if our super-military grade electronics are home grown, where will we get the expertise to continue to make such without a domestic industry?
What country do you think most of the advanced microprocessors are made in? The US has a lot of experience building super-expensive fabs and mass-producing amazingly complex microprocessors, which is why if you look into your computer, you'll notice that your processor was made in the US, not China.
For those that care:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...
Nvidia uses TSMC/UMC, AMD uses GlobalFoundries