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Conley
10-08-2011, 10:02 AM
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.

“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/

This is where the next wars will be fought, with computers. We need to hire nerds. NERRRRDS!!!

Seriously would not surprise me at all if the Chinese are behind this. Very likely it is their hackers. >:(

MMC
10-08-2011, 10:47 AM
They were talking about this and saying they didnt know. My azz they know. I think you are right.

NASA, DOD, SOS, all have been hacked or sent shit. Best get Gates azz up there since he makse most of the software.

Conley
10-08-2011, 10:52 AM
They were talking about this and saying they didnt know. My azz they know. I think you are right.

NASA, DOD, SOS, all have been hacked or sent shit. Best get Gates azz up there since he makse most of the software.


Yep...if they know it is the Chinese they won't say it because they want to avoid a confrontation. But it has been clear that more and more U.S. companies and the U.S. government have all been hacked by the Chinese. Just a few months ago Google had a major hacking done to them by the Chinese as well. The Chinese are actively encouraging it. We should start hacking their shit back imo.

Mister D
10-08-2011, 10:54 AM
They were talking about this and saying they didnt know. My azz they know. I think you are right.

NASA, DOD, SOS, all have been hacked or sent shit. Best get Gates azz up there since he makse most of the software.


Yep...if they know it is the Chinese they won't say it because they want to avoid a confrontation. But it has been clear that more and more U.S. companies and the U.S. government have all been hacked by the Chinese. Just a few months ago Google had a major hacking done to them by the Chinese as well. The Chinese are actively encouraging it. We should start hacking their shit back imo.


We might be. China would never admit it if it happened.

Conley
10-08-2011, 10:58 AM
They were talking about this and saying they didnt know. My azz they know. I think you are right.

NASA, DOD, SOS, all have been hacked or sent shit. Best get Gates azz up there since he makse most of the software.


Yep...if they know it is the Chinese they won't say it because they want to avoid a confrontation. But it has been clear that more and more U.S. companies and the U.S. government have all been hacked by the Chinese. Just a few months ago Google had a major hacking done to them by the Chinese as well. The Chinese are actively encouraging it. We should start hacking their shit back imo.


We might be. China would never admit it if it happened.


We might be but I don't think we have quite the program that they do. I read about how they had rounded up a bunch of young computer techs and had them working on this island. I definitely think it's a lot easier for the Chinese government to keep these projects hush hush than it is here in the States, for obvious reasons. Guys like Bradley Manning don't last a day in China, unless they're being tortured before execution. Forget about a Wikileaks situation.

MMC
10-08-2011, 11:05 AM
Yeah.....but we arrested a bunch of hackers here in the US and many were put to work for us. :-\

Mister D
10-08-2011, 11:13 AM
They were talking about this and saying they didnt know. My azz they know. I think you are right.

NASA, DOD, SOS, all have been hacked or sent shit. Best get Gates azz up there since he makse most of the software.


Yep...if they know it is the Chinese they won't say it because they want to avoid a confrontation. But it has been clear that more and more U.S. companies and the U.S. government have all been hacked by the Chinese. Just a few months ago Google had a major hacking done to them by the Chinese as well. The Chinese are actively encouraging it. We should start hacking their shit back imo.


We might be. China would never admit it if it happened.


We might be but I don't think we have quite the program that they do. I read about how they had rounded up a bunch of young computer techs and had them working on this island. I definitely think it's a lot easier for the Chinese government to keep these projects hush hush than it is here in the States, for obvious reasons. Guys like Bradley Manning don't last a day in China, unless they're being tortured before execution. Forget about a Wikileaks situation.


I don't doubt that we engage in quite a bit of activity that the public has no knowledge of.

Mr. Wonderful
10-08-2011, 03:22 PM
News flash boys -

We are at war with China. Make no mistake about it.

MMC
10-08-2011, 10:49 PM
Yes we are.....still we do not need to worry yet. As they still have no blue water fleet. Even once they get their fleet out. It is only one task force.