[47135] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Apr 25 19:05:24 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>, <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
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> Rounding up 1 significant figure would reduce their combat effectiveness
> measurably.
>
> The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a
> missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.
The Chinese had the shenzhou 2 capsule in orbit for 7 months in 2001...
more recently shenzhou 3 went up with and safely returned nine eggs after
108 orbits...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1948000/1948317.stm
One would suspect that that they're far more interested in launching 12-14
ton commercial payloads with the long-march 2ea, then they are in blowing
up the US.
> We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less expensive to
> create than invasion or nuclear weapons.
>
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> blitz
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>
> I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must assume
> by now.
> Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take
> Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a favor.
> Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that.
>
> At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> >Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government would actively
> fund
> >cyberterrorism?
> >
> >Deepak Jain
> >AiNET
>
>
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