The amount of information that the Chinese has been able to gather on American war assets is both astounding and disturbing. I'm sorry, but defense contractors need to get their act together and start removing computers from internet connected networks. Seriously, every computer that holds defense secrets should NEVER have been connected to outside networks! Who thought that was a good idea? Unfortunately, by this point I really wonder what more information the Chinese could hope to gather. They certainly have enough technical specifications to not only close the technological gap by years and certainly billions of dollars. Potentially more damaging is the ability to look for holes and weak points in our defensive and offensive systems. Knowing the flight profiles of missiles, their ranges and capabilities could theoretically allow the Chinese to make weapons that bypass these capabilities. I really hope we don't get into any sort of shooting war with the Chinese...

Just is troubling is that if the Chinese can hack into supposedly secure defense networks, our civilian networks must be easy pickings. China could insert malicious code to take down American businesses or even utility networks. What would we consider such actions? A declaration of war? What if China simply passed along military or civilian backdoors to other countries, what a mess that would be...

I wonder if the NSA spent less time spying on American citizens it might be able to find decent ways of purging hacked systems and getting better security to contractors, businesses, etc.