Hackers in China are watching you pee.

According to the China Daily, the US Government is struggling to keep up with the pace of computer security threats, even in the military. They allege that government systems remain compromised by an "agent.btz" virus, and that our budget-reducing measures which shift to less localized access-it-from-anywhere networking models will make the systems even easier to compromise. The China Daily quotes US General Keith Alexander as saying the Pentagon computer networks are probed by potential attackers 250,000 times every hour.

While previous posts may have mentioned that there's room in the military budget to cut, this could be one area which may be valid to increase. Do we trust the computer security around our military secrets as-is? What kind of information is at risk? What's the worst thing that can happen from an intrusion which grabs that information? Are there different infrastructural directions we can take to protect the data? Is this just the military's problem, or one of the internet as a whole? There are a lot of potential discussions which can stem from this issue.

If you feel this is important, try massaging some statements like these examples using the rules in the eBook to try and hijack the less relevant conversations everyone else is involved in:

• Wildfire Immigrant-Blaming: "Which immigrants are to blame for the wildfire of  250,000 cyber attacks per hour on the Pentagon? Can we pin that on the Mexicans too?"
• Georgia Immigration Law: "I don't see why they're bothering anyways. No one wants to move to Georgia to begin with. This year's hot destination? The Pentagon. Their network gets over 250,000 "requests" for data from hidden foreign sources every hour."
• Michelle Bachmann Fundraising Skillz: "The number of people tossing money at her is almost as high as the number of foreign hackers tossing probes at the Pentagon's networks these days (250000 an hour!)."