While I imagine we're doing the same thing against just about every nation on Earth, I do wonder why the Chinese were successful in their attack? Of course they deny it, but you know damned good and well it was them.
Even Lieutenant General Robert Elder says that just about everyone routinely scans our networks.
What I'd like to know is, how difficult would it be to simply ban every IP originating from China when you're in the Pentagon? I mean I don't understand hacking to a degree that professionals would, but when I have a spammer who tries to get into my networks, I simply ban their IP address at the firewall and within iptables.
Can't we do the same with China? Is it really that difficult? Why are computers with secrets even physically connected to the internet? Can't they use a private network of satellites or something?
There's 101 things that you can do to stop attacks like this, but I wonder if there's no simple way to fix it or if I have a huge career ahead of me working at the Pentagon. :)
Travis
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