Forum: General F-35 Forum

Last edited by maus92 on Feb 04, 2012 - 08:49 PM; edited 1 time in total

Disturbing article about cyberespionage conducted by China against the JSF program and its contractors.

"The F-35 program may have been vulnerable because of its lengthy development. Defense analysts note that the JSF’s information system was not designed with cyberespionage, now called advanced persistent threat, in mind. Lockheed Martin officials now admit that subcontractors (6-8 in 2009 alone, according to company officials) were hacked and “totally compromised.” In fact, the stealth fighter program probably has the biggest “attack surface” or points that can be attacked owing to the vast number of international subcontractors."

AW/By David Fulghum, Bill Sweetman, Amy Butler
Washington, Washington, Washington

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/ ... mp;next=10

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Yawn... Really so other countries try to hack systems and get their spies working on the inside to gain information - and to think its only the F-35 program that "might" be vulnerable to such things.... well I never Applause

Maybe they post the classified info up on Facebook these days - think I will go over and take a look...

Ah, BS again. Did I call it or what?

Why is classified information even exposed on an internet connected machine. All data should be on non-internet connected machines.

We used to worry about this, then we figured, let'em have the data. Why should WE be the only ones six months behind schedule.
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madrat wrote:

Why is classified information even exposed on an internet connected machine. All data should be on non-internet connected machines.

I couldn't agree more. Use hard disks and private networks only for the grey stuff.

madrat wrote:

Why is classified information even exposed on an internet connected machine. All data should be on non-internet connected machines.

You'd think huh?

Actually it's a devious CIA plot to let the Chinese hack all the buggy F-35 sytems.. h Very Happy

United States is not that stupid to leave its self open to cyber espionage/attack. I bet all the info china stole is all misinformation. I HOPE Shocked

Much ado about nothing in the article, mostly unnamed sources and FORMER senior staffer in the senate, etc.

One sentence really stuck out:
"The Pentagon’s reasoning for slowing production is to reduce the impact of yet-unknown problems that could still arise from the flight-test program."

The "wait until it's perfect" approach means you will never field a product.
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Poor Bastards- All that wasted effort.

http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/did-c ... 35-delays/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMSHvgaUWc8

Forum: General F-35 Forum

China's hacking of JSF program