anyone mind answering a few questions for me?

[mizx]

Hopefully this is a suitable subforum, I couldn't decide whether to put it in News/Politics or not.

Anyway, I'm working on a report on Cyber Spying/Espionage that requires some quantitative research, so I thought I'd try posting this here to save a bit of time.

I would appreciate it if you could answer these three questions, and please feel free to make any comments as and where you'd like to.

1) Were you aware of Cyber Spying/Espionage incidents such as or similar to the following?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7990997.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/g...

2) Are you aware that China, Israel, the UK, and the US are world leaders in cyber spying and cyber warfare capabilities?

3) Do you feel cyber spying/espionage constitutes a threat to you personally?

Thanks

Edited by mizx on Monday 4th May 20:42

[CommanderJameson]

How will you know that the answers haven't been modified in transit by the Cyber Spies?

After all, in this greatest of ages for our country, when our glorious leader, Gordon Brown, is, with strength and wisdom, leading us out of this global recession, it is most important that all communications are properly monitored, lest The Terrorists gain a foothold.

[Allanv]

1, Yes and a shed load more from the late (pick a year)

2, Yes, but you forgot Russia everyone does it now anyway. If you work in my industry you would see it day to day.

3, not really its no different to older times just now modern technology makes it easier we have always be spied on checked up on etc

[Chrisgr31]

1) Yes
2) Knew about China not thought about the rest
3) Nope not concerned

[SoapyShowerBoy]

1.yes
2.yes, apart from Isreal
3.No.

[maser_spyder]

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) No, couldn't give two hoots.

[tossbag]

The answers here to number 3 are the most concerning to me, people surf, people get infected and those infected PCs silently infect other PCs.
People unconcerned about being infected (or a percieved threat of being infected) or with a general 'I don't care' way of looking at things is what almost made our lovely government consider making having an infected, unchecked PC a criminal offense, enforcable by a prison term for the most prolific 'don't care' brigade.
Everyone should care about this, and the prevention of the scenario especially.

[Ozone]

This isn't anything new. Most of the root DNS servers are in the states and it is all monitored. Between Menwith Hill and GCHQ all of the uk's communications are monitored and a large part of Europe and Asia too.

I'm not bothered, just avoid keywords like bomb and attack etc

[M@T.R]

Yes
Yes
No

[agent006]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Governments will spy, just like the sun comes up in the morning. Other than being able to see GCHQ (or the ensuing mushroom cloud) from my back bedroom, i'm not really concerned at all.

[LukeBird]

Yes
Yes
Yes

[RobM77]

Yes
Yes
Yes

[escargot]

Yes
Yes
Yes

[FoolOnTheHill]

1)No
2)Doesn't surprise me.
3)fk all we can do it about if it does.