The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies....

[BuckNaked]

Time

The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)
An exclusive look at how the hackers called TITAN RAIN are stealing U.S. secrets
By NATHAN THORNBURGH

Posted Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005
It was another routine night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of coffee and a pack of Nicorette gum to the cluster of computer terminals in his home office. As he had almost every night for the previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until dawn, not as Shawn Carpenter, mid-level analyst, but as Spiderman--the apt nickname his military-intelligence handlers gave him--tirelessly pursuing a group of suspected Chinese cyberspies all over the world. Inside the machines, on a mission he believed the U.S. government supported, he clung unseen to the walls of their chat rooms and servers, secretly recording every move the snoopers made, passing the information to the Army and later to the FBI.

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Very interesting read...

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Nice how the guy got canned... there must be more to it... and these are indeed interesting times!

 

[Zontor]

I read this earlier this morning....not a hell ofa lota detail here...would've liked to have known more....

 

[CaptnKirk]

. . . and so goes our 'War on Terrorism'.

 

[rudder]

The article says the guy is now working for a consulting/contracting firm. One can only hope he is continuing his work. I hope the government is not that incompetent and at least they have him at a private company so the feds won't get lambasted by the ACLU.

Scary stuff though.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: rudder
The article says the guy is now working for a consulting/contracting firm. One can only hope he is continuing his work. I hope the government is not that incompetent and at least they have him at a private company so the feds won't get lambasted by the ACLU.

Scary stuff though.

USG secure networks are physically isolated from the internet.