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Even though we have enough to worry about with the worldwide threat to the West originating in the Middle East and spreading through Southeast Asia, we can't forget about communist Red China...

Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2002

CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber- Attacks on U.S.
Defense: Analysts fear government and private efforts to sabotage federal Internet sites.

BYLINE: ERIC LICHTBLAU, TIMES STAFF WRITER

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

U.S. intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is working to launch wide-scale cyber- attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage, according to a classified CIA report.

Moreover, U.S. authorities are bracing for a possible wave of hacking attacks by Chinese students against the United States in coming weeks, according to the analysis. The confidential alert, which was reviewed by The Times, was sent to intelligence officials a week ago.

Although U.S. officials have voiced concerns about individual hackers in China who have defaced federal and private Web sites, the United States has resisted publicly linking the Chinese government to those attacks or to broader cyber-style warfare.

The new CIA report, however, makes clear that U.S. intelligence analysts have become increasingly concerned that authorities in Beijing are actively planning to damage and disrupt U.S. computer systems through the use of Internet hacking and computer viruses.

Although the assessment concludes that China has not yet acquired the technical sophistication to do broad damage to U.S. and Taiwanese systems, it maintains that this is the "intended goal" of the People's Liberation Army in China....

-- posted by Rande