China seen as new space power

[Condo Guard]

Those familiar with C3I know the implications here. For the business sector, companies that rely heavily on the use of GPS should probably have their risk managers look at how they would operate without.

http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-space-a...061300435.html

[Condo Guard]

One of the members PM'd me, but I couldn't respond back. Looking at my previous post, I guess I was a bit vague. C3I is a military term meaning Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence. For example, in the old days (i.e. the First Gulf War) we knocked out Saddam's by bombing radar stations, communications facilities and his military and intelligence services headquarters.

In the future, cyber warfare will be the "front line" of this. My point was that because computer networks and "smart technology" are all tied together, an attack would not be limited to just military networks. Some of you may remember an old scenario whereby an enemy would detonate a nuke specifically to generate an EMP to knock out electronics. With a satellite attack, hacking and various computer viruses, you could achieve the same thing. I don't want to sound like a "doomsday prepper" here, but a way to really "hit" us would be a coordinated attack on such things as electronic banking, GPS, e-mail services, etc. Or, as has been previously talked about, take down our very vulnerable power grid. Either way, the private sector should have some contingency plans.

[sec-guy]

one of the members pm'd me, but i couldn't respond back. Looking at my previous post, i guess i was a bit vague. C3i is a military term meaning command, control, communications and intelligence. For example, in the old days (i.e. The first gulf war) we knocked out saddam's by bombing radar stations, communications facilities and his military and intelligence services headquarters.

In the future, cyber warfare will be the "front line" of this. My point was that because computer networks and "smart technology" are all tied together, an attack would not be limited to just military networks. Some of you may remember an old scenario whereby an enemy would detonate a nuke specifically to generate an emp to knock out electronics. With a satellite attack, hacking and various computer viruses, you could achieve the same thing. I don't want to sound like a "doomsday prepper" here, but a way to really "hit" us would be a coordinated attack on such things as electronic banking, gps, e-mail services, etc. Or, as has been previously talked about, take down our very vulnerable power grid. Either way, the private sector should have some contingency plans.

thanks for the clarification...............was me who pm'd you

[sec-guy]

One of the members PM'd me, but I couldn't respond back. Looking at my previous post, I guess I was a bit vague. C3I is a military term meaning Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence. For example, in the old days (i.e. the First Gulf War) we knocked out Saddam's by bombing radar stations, communications facilities and his military and intelligence services headquarters.

In the future, cyber warfare will be the "front line" of this. My point was that because computer networks and "smart technology" are all tied together, an attack would not be limited to just military networks. Some of you may remember an old scenario whereby an enemy would detonate a nuke specifically to generate an EMP to knock out electronics. With a satellite attack, hacking and various computer viruses, you could achieve the same thing. I don't want to sound like a "doomsday prepper" here, but a way to really "hit" us would be a coordinated attack on such things as electronic banking, GPS, e-mail services, etc. Or, as has been previously talked about, take down our very vulnerable power grid. Either way, the private sector should have some contingency plans.

People should treat stuff like that very seriously. If dealing with hurricanes and power outages is an example then I had
better start "prepping"

[Prov 2:8]

I believe I just heard about a group of woman and men with a minimal budget ($2500) were actually able to hack into a prison system and remotely unlock the cell doors all while suppressing alarms so whats is watched by prison guards showed no interruption. The prisons use programmable logic controllers to control locks on cells and other facility doors and gates. This was clearly only a test and was able to be accomplished in 3 hours I believe. Not nearly as advanced as mentioned above but still a concern with the vulnerabilities with technology today.

[Squid]

Maybe gifting them their entire spacelaunch/ICBM program wasn't such a great idea.

IIRC, ditto with India.

Combined population of 2 billion, decades and major Govt backed program to build space launch/ICBM, and pretty much total access to all Western universities and machine tooling, and not till the US Govt outright gifted them their entire programs did they have any real success.