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Default Chinese hackers steal code for Joint Strike Fighter and more

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:32:06 -0500, Ignoramus3201
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027491029837401.html

Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project

By SIOBHAN GORMAN, AUGUST COLE and YOCHI DREAZEN

WASHINGTON -- Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300
billion Joint Strike Fighter project -- the Defense Department's
costliest weapons program ever -- according to current and former
government officials familiar with the attacks.

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Not the first time.

see
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2...vernmentbreach


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).