Unrestricted Warfare Update

Back here I mentioned a cool--as in chilling--book called Unrestricted Warfare, published by the People's Liberation Army. It's about their plans to counter American influence through means of assymetric warfare on different battlefields--including terrorism, financial piracy, drugs, and cyberattacks.

Well, now look over at that Seagate or Maxtor external hard drive on your desk. Did you know it might be sending everything stored on it di-rect to China?

Portable hard discs sold locally [note--this article is from Taiwan--seedub] and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.

Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said.

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Sensitive information may have already been intercepted by Beijing through the two Web sites, the bureau said.

The bureau said that the method of attack was unusual, adding that it suspected Chinese authorities were involved.

In recent years, the Chinese government has run an aggressive spying program relying on information technology and the Internet, the bureau said.

!SEIMMOC ,SRUOY PU

More at Slashdot and Isaac Schrodinger, who gets a big JYB Tailwag.

Suspicions of this sort of thing have been around for a while, by the way. The DoD stopped using IBM computers for anything secure last year after they were bought out by Chinese computer-maker Lenovo.