US and China engage in cyber war games

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The US and China have been discreetly engaging in "war games" amid rising anger in Washington over the scale and audacity of Beijing-co-ordinated cyber attacks on western governments and big business, the Guardian has learned.

State department and Pentagon officials, along with their Chinese counterparts, were involved in two war games last year that were designed to help prevent a sudden military escalation between the sides if either felt they were being targeted. Another session is planned for May.

Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.

"China has come to the conclusion that the power relationship has changed, and it has changed in a way that favours them," said Jim Lewis, a senior fellow and director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank in Washington.

not excactly new information, the US are fairly active cyber terrorists themselves.

both countries pale in comparison to the private initiatives of cyber terrorism the worldis seeing now, usually against both the us and china.

Why be mad at China, when lonely Gary McKinnon a scottish hacker broke in Washington's deepest secrets time and again. This autie guy got a bit silly when he gave himself away. I've read the US government were using Windows as there fail safe operating system, so there you are. The US want to imprison Gary for 60 years, not very good for an autie (asperger's) guy, but cannot confess their weakness in letting it happen.

the pentagon is hacked monthly at least and the chinese firewall is so full of holes its ridicoulous.

The US has also tried to hack into Chinas system as a menas to spy on them how ever this will do us no good.

Make cyber love, not cyber war! Oh, but you can pick up a virus that way too. Does Norton make cyber condoms?