Ex-Bush aide: Countries spy through the Net

Nations are using the Internet to spy on enemies and plot digital attacks, former cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke says.

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[nealda]

The Commies are in the Wire

They're all around us I tells ya.

Get ready for it, people. This is just the latest round of red baiting that they'll use to curtail our freedom in the name of "national security."
We can't just let people have this kind of information power, themselves, now can we? That would be dangerous. Only our fearless leaders are smart enough to use this technology wisely.

"Are you now, or have you ever been a subscriber to broadband? Answer the question!"

So long (freedom), it's been good to know ya.

Codes are already embedded in hardware!

I am suspecting that Chinese, Russians, Singaporeans, Malaysians, Indians and other off-shore hardware and software sources to have long embedded in the hardware chips, video drivers, and other hardware drivers very subtle monitoring, eavesdropping clandestine and malicious software that can now be controlled through the internet.

We all have been busy tackling the issues of Internet Explorers, Outlook express, databases and other browsers while we install without questions nor reservations the hardware and their drivers unto our machines. Who is checking these codes? I don't think the US has the resources to check each and every codes of these drivers. For example, there could be some unknown chips in the very cheap network cards or even the Wireless cards that when it happens to receive the TCP/IP data packets it will corrupt the computer system. This kind of attack and devious way of crippling the majority of the US internet is so easy to do and simply the US has no resources to cover and check this kind of risk for every hardware and their drivers. Anything that can be connected to the internet that uses this hardware and drivers are all potential suspects since the implementation is easy to do for the hardware hackers, but the scrutiny and checking of such hardware is an enormous cost to the US. We all have blind trusts on the manufacturers who reside outside the US with other agenda. There are a million cheap ways to wreck havoc using the cheap hardware that the world is buying.

Richard Clark is promoting his business

He used to be White House Chief Security advisor but retired after 9-11. He is currently chairman of a company that offers consulting services to companies who have become concerned about cyberthreats, or cyberterrorism. He's Marketing

However his fear based has upsets me and heres why:

Our media news sources are no longer able to provide the quality of news they once could. Corporate ownership and the obscenel new FCC violation penalties imposed by Bush have damaged them severely. Fox was recently fined 185MILLION DOLLARS for "involved depiction of sexual activity"

How can you trust a news source that's responsible to a private owner and/or grossly vulnerable to Govt retaliation.

TO STAY INFORMED YOU MUST TRAVEL OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS ON DATALINES, GATHER AS MANY SIDES OF THE STORY AS YOU CAN THEN FORM YOUR OWN OPINION.

LETTING THE GOVERMENT CONVINCE YOU THAT IT NEEDS TO CONTROL OUR DATALINES COULD ENSURE THAT ALL INFORMATION WE RECIEVE COMES FROM THEM?

China has tried to control the data that its citizens have access to by blocking access to external news and educational pages for years.a very difficult task. They also employ web police to monitor citizens and identify "threating" pages. Two years ago citing a deadly fire at one internet cafe the governtment closed 3000 others and began targeting 12,000 more. The complete control of all information is a critical step in population control and one of the defining differences between an oppressive society and one that is free.

Individually paste these two links into to your browser for full details on this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2540309.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2608305.stm


Bush has attacked and badly weakened our free press under the guise of protecting children from obscenity.

DO NOT LET BUSH OR ANY OTHER OFFICIAL USE, CHILDREN, CYBERTERROR, OR ANY OTHER PROPOGANDA TO REGULATE CONTROL OR SECURE OUR PRECIOUS SOURCES OF NEWS AND COMMUNICATION!!!

[Steven N]

Understatement of the year???

"Maybe the United States too," don't believe that maybe for one second...