By Long time readers may remember that the South Korean government under former President Roh Moo-hyun were interested in buy the US high altitude UAV called the Global Hawk:
However, the US government refused to sell Global Hawks to South Korea in fear of technology being leaked. Then after the election of current South Korean President Lee Myung-bak the US changed its tune and was willing to sell Global Hawk to the ROK. However, like I mentioned when the announcement happened, the problem with leaked technology just doesn’t magically stop because there is a new President. Well now it appears that the compromising of the technology could in fact not come from a leak, but instead Chinese hackers:
Chinese hackers gained access to the government’s top-secret plan to buy the U.S.-made Global Hawk reconnaissance drone in June 2010, it emerged Sunday.
“We’ve had a report from a government official that China launched a hacking attack on the Defense Ministry’s computer system and accessed confidential information about the ministry’s plan” to buy the drone, a spokesman for Democratic Party lawmaker Shin Hak-yong of the National Assembly’s Defense Committee said. “The government hasn’t raised this issue with China yet and is apparently still mulling how to handle it.” [Chosun Ilbo]
First of all it is outrageous how the Chinese are allowed to just continually launch these cyber attacks on various countries and get away with it. Secondly, if technology for the Global Hawk is transferred to South Korea I have to wonder what the security protocols are going to be to protect it from being compromised by the Chinese if South Korea does decide to buy?
11:07 pm on March 10th, 2011 1
The answer is simple really. Don't sell and don't tell. And Korea saves a pile of money. Good for all sides and no controversy or excuses to bash on Korea here either.
I hope it all works out.
11:32 pm on March 10th, 2011 2
Tom, as usual, misses that we're bashing China…
12:22 am on March 11th, 2011 3
Who leaked the nuclear technology to the USSR?
Who leaked the space program to China?
Who leaked the stealth program to China?
Who has thousands of Chinese working in its defence industry, despite hundreds of spy cases involving them and China every year?
Now can we really say Korea is the weak link in leaking?
2:45 am on March 11th, 2011 4
Yup, and that's exactly the attitude Koreans have about foreigners in Korea about everything.
6:20 am on March 11th, 2011 5
#4
Please it's TOM we are talking about. Ignore and move on.
8:14 am on March 11th, 2011 6
#3 Tommy Ten Times
He is correct, a rarity, but correct none the less. What Tom will never understand as a supposed Korean (or Chinaman) is that the U.S. was founded on diversity in people and ideas. This is the foundation that has allowed the creation of many "firsts" and ideas that the world enjoys today.
8:20 am on March 11th, 2011 7
Admiral Lee – "Yup, and that’s exactly the attitude Koreans have about foreigners in Korea about everything."
Yup, and Koreans are paying a hefty price for this attitude. In time, that price will be much too great a burden to bear.
7:18 am on March 12th, 2011 8
I'm a bit lost here. Precisely what attitude toward foreigners in Korea is the problem with the Global Hawk tech now?
11:38 am on March 13th, 2011 9
Umm this makes absolutely zero sense.
"Did China Steal Global Hawk Technology From South Korea?"
Considering we haven't ~yet~ sold them this stuff how could the Chinese already steal it? It should read
"Will China Attempt To Steal Global Hawk Technology From South Korea?
Second is
"acessed confidential information about the ministry’s plan” to buy the drone"
So they got information about the ~plan~ to buy the items not the actual technology behind it. Its a ridiculously big stretch to go from "stole plan to buy" to "stole the technology itself". Time traveling, universe distorting big.
12:38 pm on March 13th, 2011 10
Tom keeps the conversation flowing.
12:40 pm on March 13th, 2011 11
This kind of distortions are A-OK, as long they are done against Koreans. But there will be hell on earth if they are done against Americans. That's the usual logic.
12:45 pm on March 13th, 2011 12
I wonder if Tom is taking meth. I heard that makes you paranoid…
10:33 pm on March 13th, 2011 13
@9- I changed one word in the title to reflect what I said in the posting:
4:11 pm on May 5th, 2011 14
Technology has come very far in NASA base, top secret and i can only tell that we have constructed a time-machine.
9:10 pm on May 5th, 2011 15
NASA,
I, too, have constructed a time machine.
I set the digital controls for the time I want to arrive at, close my eyes, and in what seems like a few seconds, I arrive at that time 6 to 10 hours ahead.
Then I kick off my Time Travel Blanket and go take a pee.
Time travel always makes me have to pee.
And sometimes it gives me a woody.