It is obvious to me that Native American Languages should be used to encrypt all future Taiwanese Military Communication.  A round robin of all languages that can still be used could drive normal working Chinese joes to keep their jobs and help preserve World Heritage Languages, on American Soil.

I won't go into the conspiracy department so readily, the Chinese can work out if it dud information they have been fed with, give them plenty of credit for that! Their technological understanding is jolly damn good and so is their counter-espionage ability.

What I can imagine that has happen and can happen is the Taiwanese give the information to the Chinese - they have a history of doing that. Their pilots etc have defected in the past, their businessmen etc all pass on secrets to the Chinese side. It has to be remembered their spies also feed China with intelligence including those provided to them by the US, we mustn't forget that one of those who provided the Chinese with goodies who has been prosecuted in the US was a Taiwanese.

A couple of decades ago, a couple of Taiwanese spies told the Chinese how the US eavesdrop on China - the Chinese promptly hard-wired all their military communication and hide that underground. Anything else like reciting menus of restaurants are done by wireless means. The Chinese knows the Yanks are paranoid and probably think secrets are hidden in those lines about roast pork, fried ducks and kung pao chickens!

The US arrested an elderly Taiwanese scientist for spying some years back only to bodge up the whole thing ending with an apology by the US government...

The Taiwanese are not at all fond of the US, they are very close to the Okinawans and the South Koreans in their dislike.

I would worry not just about laptops, I would worry about every other way the Taiwanese can lose their own secrets and those of the US!

Shows you how good stealth as designed by both the US and China is!

pepe (unregistered) wrote in #17
Security breaches like this would never make the news.  What's happened is the US has planted a laptop with all phony information, hoping the Chinese get it, assume the wrong things, and get stung.  Typical spy vs. spy stuff, that should fool anybody in the trade. This "let the enemy steal phoney information from a guided
 missile vesse l trick" is so well known that no professional spy organization will ever fall for it.It could be a tripple bluff though or even something one step beyond that..