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..

I think this article should have been in the Humour section.

Nope, wasn't china who stole it,to imply china was that close to steal it, the could have just hacked the infor like anyother developed country, look again some might say...friends are not always friends and foes are not a,ways foes, but false flag operations sure do go along way.

Where are the proofs and traces?. Out of it,  it's only a cheap  political rethoric.
Greetin gs fro mexico.

" Stupid is .... what stupid does." Who knows what is the truth?  Could be and again it could be not.It was all planned for the Chinese to steal it and now they have the newer version of the Flame II virus .... newer, better and improved model. The Chinese already copied the laptop and have it installed on all their military hardware and are selling it to the highest bidders also.It should be on comsumers shelves just in time for the Christmas rush.Grab yourselves a few.

Just like we put the drone in Iran and it put a Flame type worm in Iranian computers, this laptop will spy on China.

Dear Wesley, you're kind of an idiot.

The owner of the laptop was with a prostitute

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.

It is obvious the Chinese stole it. They are incapable of developing anything on their own so, they have to resort to petty theft. Modern day China was built by the U.S. because they needed their slave labor to build products. Now get back to work in your sweat shop so we in the world can have nice things.

It is obvious the Chinese stole it. They are incapable of developing anything on their own so, they have to resort to petty theft. Modern day China was built by the U.S. because they needed their slave labor to build products. Now get back to work in your sweat shop so we in the world can have nice things.

LOL LOLI just love mainland Chinese e spionage!   

thats embarassment indeed.) but dont u go pin point at china! why not japan, or S/N-korea? Anyway, you should have made that thing(laptop) ''built in'' the ship! So it can not go anywhere without the ship! or maybe a profesional thief stole it...not chinese spy!

Someone got paid to make that thing disappear, and maybe someone else
to look the other way. All the high tech stuff in the world doesn't work when
you have corruption.  Just look at all the illegal drugs in the USA

I'm wondering if the computer was even locked physically to the ship (ie chain) and if hard-drive encryption software/hardware was present, if not someone really is in hotwater.
If this laptop is the standard of Top secret security wouldn't be surprised if China already had the majority of this information alleged ly stolen.

A s bad as this seems almost every military and major company has lost very sensitive information due to not securing their data correctly, most just never publicly ack nowledge it.