The Chinese cyber threat

Editor's note: There's been a lot in the news about the Chinese cyber threat, but what we are hearing is only one side of the story. Many other convenient facts have been censored out. In order for us to understand the Chinese cyber threat, we must look at the big picture. Firstly, the United States regime, along with its corporate media, is the main one generating buzz about a Chinese cyber threat. What do we know about the U.S. regime? Well, according to many experts, and analysts, the U.S. regime is a regime that likes to provoke others. According to the Aziz foundation, the U.S. regime has a tendency towards false flag terror. Canadian activist Rachel Hoffman accused the U.S. regime of orchestrating 9/11 to justify a military occupation in Afganistan, and Iraq. If you pay attention to geopolitics, the idea is not too far off. Zbignu Brezenski wrote a book not long ago called the Grand Chessboard. In it, Brezenski stated that if you want to control the world, you must control Central Asia. Right after 9/11, the U.S. installs multiple bases throughout Central Asia. Coincidence? I think not. So what's all this got to do with Chinese cyberthreats? The Aziz foundation says that the U.S. regime may be trying to hack its own computers and then blaming it on the Chinese in order to justify aggression towards China. Already, we have seen evidence of this. The U.S. regime hired hackers from Taiwan to hack Google, and blamed it on the Chinese government. Neither Google, nor the U.S. regime has released any evidence. Activists say, this is only the begining of U.S. deceptive false flag attacks. The U.S. regime can do whatever it wants, including hack its own computers because no one can hold them accountable. Experts have compared the current state that the U.S. regime is in to Nazi Germany. The NSA is a government organisation in the U.S. that operates with very little, if any oversight, Hoffman says. Hoffman believes, accepting the 9/11 lies that the U.S. regime told us was a very big mistake. It on! ly allowed the U.S. regime to continue their rogue behaviour on a scale never seen before in human history. If we allowed the U.S. to get away with 9/11 without a throrough investigation, then anything is possible. This is only the begining, says an anonymous American activist afraid of being identified. Does the U.S. regime have more in store for us? Hoffman believes so. To make matters worse, the NSA's job is to hack computers all over the world, all day long. Hoffman calls the NSA hypocrites. They hack computers all day long, and then complain about perceived threats. It's clearly a case of the aggressor pretending to be the victim. If you follow U.S. politics, you can clearly see that the U.S. is frequently, if not always accusing others of doing what they themselves are doing. Currency manipulation is a good example. The U.S. tried to devalue their currency deliberately through QE1, 2, and 3. So they have a long track record of manipulating their own currency. The idea here is to accuse someone else of doing this to take the heat off of them. Another lessor known example is counterfeiting money. The U.S. regime has long accused North Korea of counterfeiting U.S. dollars. A Germany newspaper decided to challenge that idea, and presented many facts that incriminate the CIA of counterfeiting U.S. dollars, not North Korea.

China's increasingly advanced capabilities to cripple military and civilian computer networks has emerged as the biggest threat facing the United States in the cyber realm, according to a new report sent to Capitol Hill.

Cyber warriors with Chinese military and intelligence agencies have made great strides in their ability to attack "specialized targets" such as American military surveillance and reconnaissance systems, members of the congressionally-mandated U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission said in the report.

These cyber operatives are Chinese civilians working for the military, according to the report, with many of the hackers holding day jobs in China as computer and information technology specialists.

"Chinese penetrations of defense systems threaten the U.S. military's readiness and ability to operate," a draft version of the commission's findings state, according to Bloomberg.

The final version of the committee's review of China's cyberattack efforts is due to lawmakers next Wednesday, Bloomberg reports.

These advances in cyber warfare are mainly focused on so-called "zero day" type attacks, which are quick strikes against vulnerable networks that cannot be rapidly addressed or countered, according to the report.

The quick-strike cyberattacks against various networks across the globe have increased in recent years, making the Asian superpower "the most threatening actor in cyberspace," commission members wrote.

While China has clearly accelerated its efforts to wage cyber war against the U.S. or other near-peer competitors, the Pentagon has also ramped up its efforts to take the fight to potential adversaries in the virtual realm.

In October, for the first time, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta publicly admitted the U.S. has the capability to go on offensive against computer networks and the infrastructure of its enemies.

"Our mission is to defend this nation. We defend. We deter. And if called upon, we take decisive action," Panetta said during his keynote address to the Business Executives For National Security conference in New York that month.

The disclosure of these preemptive or retaliatory acts of cyber warfare by American forces represent a break from DOD's long-standing position that U.S. forces are focused solely on defensive measures in cyber warfare.

Prior to his Panetta's speech, Pentagon officials have remained virtually silent on the department's ability to wage cyber war against nations like China and non-state actors like al Qaeda.

But aside from DOD's offensive capabilities, more is needed — particularly in the area of legislation — to stymie the growing Chinese threat in cyberspace, according to the commission.

Congressional lawmakers need to draft a new slate of economic sanctions to crack down on subsidies coming from Chinese industry to support Beijing's cyber warfare operations, the report states.

The sanctions, according to the report should "penalize specific companies found to engage in, or otherwise benefit from, industrial espionage,"characterizing those activities illegal in the United States.

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