Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Compared to the zillions of zombified Windows machines, I doubt China is
that impressive.
Maybe China is counting on all those Windows machines.
In addition, all of China's traffic gets throttled through a small
number of optic links, IIRC.
Simply pulling the plug on those links stops anything China wants to do.
Easier said than done. Not to mention, once an attack has started,
pulling the plug after the fact could do nothing to solve stop it See
below.)
This is not true for the zombies that already exist in our own country.
How many of those zombies are (or can be) controlled by the Chinese? How
would we know one way or another? What would it take for the Chinese to
set the zombies off?
Yes, China has cyber-warfare as one of its goals--*as does our military*.
China is a lot farther along than we are.
And, if our military *doesn't* have cyber-warfare as one of its goals,
then our military is pathetically stupid.
Having worked extensively with the military (Navy, Marines, and Army), I
can attest to the fact that they are indeed stupid. They are very
limited in their training as it seems focused on purely military goals
and systems. Not to mention that the people making the decisions as to
what technology is used have purely political aims in mind. Their most
important systems use insecure Windows operating systems and networks.
They are way behind the curve when it comes to computer and network
security. There are thousands of computers on military bases with access
to military networks that could easily be used in DDoS attacks.
If I were wanting to effect such an attack on an enemy country, I would
use that countries own weaknesses against them (as I would do as part of
any military strategy). In this case, one large weakness are the
millions of Windows computers in the country and the thousands of
corporate Windows networks. All those zombied machines, all those
systems waiting for my bots to take control and effect a DDoS (or other
cyber warfare).
Now as a Linux user, I don't have to worry about my systems or networks
being compromised and being a part of a DDoS by anyone. Not that a Linux
system can't be compromised, but it's not as trivial as it is with Windows.
PGA
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