Time's Battleland: Cyber-espionage: We're #2! We're #2!

V is for Vendetta

Economist story (6/18) about the recent wave of high-profile attacks by hacker collectives references "SQL injections," or the technique of penetrating databases of companies, agencies, etc. McAfee, the web security firm, says about half of those it tracked over the first quarter of 2011 were made by Chinese "cyberspies" - a rather imprecise term for the Economist because it implies all are working for the government when, you know, China isn't exactly without criminals or hacktivists.

Read the entire post at Time's Battleland.

Pic above if from actual Economist story.  Damn those Wachowski bros!

Just rewatched the film (2006) about a month ago.  Big fun for fans of Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving - and Stephen Rea.  Also a great turn from my big favorite John Hurt (he gets to play Big Brother this time!).

The real continuity goof with the film: the West's fictional descent into fascism begins with a US-led invasion in the Middle East in response to a terror strike. Oh well, guess we have to settle for the Arab Spring instead.

Dang!

Comments

[MAtthew Rosencrans]

Why aren't we number 1? I don't want to be second best in anything.

Same game played on all fronts. If you ask my neighbor, my pruning of the tree on the property line is ruining the tree while my neighbors pruning is just right. All about perspective.

Can we have a cyber-arms race when damage can be done with a simple PC or an iPhone? Seems like keeping up with the Jonse's (or Xue's or Medvedev's) is going to take on a different flavor in the cyber world.