So, as it has been said, the Chinese may have us beat. As posted here on American Intelligence, the Chinese Military may have gotten into our satellites. Now, 2007-2008 might not be "recent", but it was posted here last month (by neverquit). Basically (if you dont want to read the whole thing, but I highly recommend you do, because its got a lot of interesting information), the Chinese Military "supposedly" hacked into two weather satellites. One of them, a "Landsat-7 earth observation satellite system experienced 12 or more minutes of interference in October 2007, and June 2008 according to the report" (neverquit 1). Now, a weather satellite might not mean much in terms of potential, but most satellites follow the same connection protocols. This could be just a simple test. They might have something far greater planned. But, I hate biases, so I wont continue to rant. To wrap it up, what do you think? Be sure to leave your opinion below (as a comment), because I would love to hear them!
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I spoke with a gentleman a few months back that was doing some work at the direct request of SecDef Gates regarding cyber attacks, our systems and capabilities, etal. After having a discussion off of the record and being told things that would make your eyes explode, the one thing I will say is that yes, we have the tools and no we can't use them overtly or even covertly (unless the NSA is being sneaky) because DOJ (Eric Holder) has our intelligence and military by the thumbs and will not let them be 'proactive' about this problem.
The real issue though, in my opinion, is that the current administration, The O in particular, still wants to treat terrorism, whether physical or technical (even drones.. "can we have our little plane back, please?") as a law enforcement or Department of State (SoS Clinton may well have the biggest balls in this administration) matter rather than an attack on our country as a whole. Until they make it a matter of national defense policy AND then actually act on it, which they WILL have to do as someone will test us, then nothing will change. Another words, nothing is going to change until we get someone in the oval office with a pair as O will never do something that actually requires policy with some risk, is pro American only and might require he miss a tee time.