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There has been recent news tagging China as one of the leading countries who hack into US government computers to get information about British military secrets. According to the news, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army tried to get information from the office of US Defense Secretary, Robert Gates. US President Bush also intended to confront China regarding the alleged hacking activity to the Pentagon and other US government computers.

In my point of view, if US government computers have really been hacked, it is not necessarily China who has done the hacking. Why is this so? It’s because when you hack into a computer, you will leave tracks and authorities can trace these tracks and will lead them to the hacker. In the US, the systems are so interconnected and if anyone does a cybercrime, the crook can be easily traced. As many of us know, all computers in the world basically use the same system, software and servers, whether Linux or Windows, Apache or IIS and all have the same security problems. Thus, it is of high probability that an unsecure server of China may have been hacked and was used to hack into the US government computers therefore hiding tracks to the real culprits. Who knows, the crooks may have actually come from England?

I would also like to voice out my opinion regarding this issue. Lately, I’ve noticed that China has been the center of controversy for various issues like Mattel products from China recalled, some food containing formalin, Hong Kong residents being hesitant to buy poultry from China and recently, this alleged hacking activity. For me, the “Sleeping Giant” is slowly becoming a powerful and influential country that could rock the whole world with its tremendous power. Do you think that these events are some of the means of stopping China in becoming a superpower? Are Chinese people really hacking into US government computers? Or are there just lame people (not necessarily Chinese or from China) who want to destroy China’s credibility?

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