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“US intelligence officials believe that the Chinese military has mapped out infrastructure control networks so that if the two nations ever went to war, the Chinese could hit American targets such as electrical grids or gas pipelines without having to launch a missile or send a fleet of bombers.”
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
“The report even gave lessons in Chinese hacker slang, such as “meat chicken,” which meant an infected computer.”
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
“An NSA unit known as the Transgression Branch specializes in this kind of track-the-hacker work and takes things one step further. The branch watches a hacker break into another country’s computer system, then follows him inside. In a 2010 operation called Ironavenger, the Transgression Branch saw e-mails containing malware being sent to a government office in a hostile country—one that the NSA wanted to know more about. Upon further inspection, the branch discovered that the malware was coming from a US ally, whose own intelligence service was trying to break in. The Americans let their allies do the hard work and watched silently as they scooped up passwords and sensitive documents from the adversary’s system. The Americans saw everything the allies saw and got some inside knowledge about how they spied.”
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
― @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
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