Cyber space and hypocrisy.

[Yorkshire pud]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29250959

"These peacetime intrusions into the networks of key defence contractors are more evidence of China's aggressive actions in cyberspace," senator Carl Levin, chairman of the committee, said.

Terrible...terrible....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29196748

US and British intelligence services are able to secretly access information from German telecoms operators, according to a German newspaper report.

A programme called Treasure Map gives the NSA and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, data from operators including Deutsche Telekom, Der Spiegel said.

The data is said to include information from networks as well as from individual computers and smart-phones.

Not terrible?

[pate]

Both terrible...

Although hacking into Iran's cyclotrons for enriching uranium and making them blow up or whichever was pretty cool, but then I couldn't figure how they'd turn that into a Big Brother angle...

The potential for future shenanigans with that stuff is a bit frightening, even if they are only using the technology to go after terrorists right now (and not using it to get dirt on political enemies, including private citizens whose opinions they don't share etc) if and when the terrorist types are 'beaten' I don't see them relinquishing the technology...

Both terrible, stinks of Communist/Socialist tactics of the Cold War era.