Australia is in the grip of a hacking scare, with its national broadcaster airing claims that Chinese attackers obtained copies of the plans for its new spooks' headquarters. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners program, copies of plans for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's new …

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Monday 27th May 2013 23:18 GMT Don Jefe

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OK. This sucks for them and is embarrassing but I wonder what 'today's' bad guy can do with it. I can see the radios being compromised as a problem but not the building plans. Who in today's world is going to mount a frontal assault on a government facility in its home country?

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1. Monday 27th May 2013 23:20 GMT Sorry that handle is already taken.
  
  Re: Value
  
  You've seen Skyfall right?
  
  (If so I'm sorry.)
  
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2. Tuesday 28th May 2013 09:20 GMT Paul Crawford
  
  Re: Value
  
  The radio's design being compromised should not be *that* much of an issue as a system for such use should be designed to be secure and jam-resistant even with general knowledge of the frequency range and modulations, etc, being used.
  
  Unless said plans also included the various PN & encryption keys as well that ought to be kept 'top secret' and on a need-to-know basis only.
  
  Oh dear, if its like the UK's favourite IT contractors then they are royally screwed, aren't they?
  
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3. Tuesday 28th May 2013 12:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Value
  
  "I wonder what 'today's' bad guy can do with it."
  
  According to this morning's BBC Radio 4 fuckwit, <br>spouting hysterical -<br>"Coz the plans show the location of the server room<br>it opens them up to cyberhacking".
  
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Monday 27th May 2013 23:32 GMT Blofeld's Cat

"Who in today's world is going to mount a frontal assault on a government facility in its home country?"

People like Timothy McVeigh?

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1. Tuesday 28th May 2013 00:08 GMT Don Jefe
  
  Drive a truck filled with explosives up to the front door of a high security government facility? I don't think so.
  
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  1. Tuesday 28th May 2013 02:35 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
    
    But they won't need to - now that they have the plans they can abseil down from the roof avoiding the (strangely visible) laser defence network
    
    But since all the australian spy agency does is spy on other branches of the australian government while failing to notice the large number of foreign spies generally working for it (ie they are exactly like every other intelligence agency) - this isn't going to do much harm
    
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2. Tuesday 28th May 2013 01:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Didn't a plane land on the Pentagon a few years back?
  
  Do you not read the news?
  
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3. Tuesday 28th May 2013 08:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  @Blofeld's Cat
  
  I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that having the plans for the security wiring of a building won't make much difference if you plan to blow it up with a truckload of explosives.
  
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  1. Tuesday 28th May 2013 12:46 GMT Don Jefe
    
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    Or if you're going to fly a plane into it...
    
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Monday 27th May 2013 23:57 GMT Ole Juul

Credibility factor missing - as usual

- someone is trying to undermine the credibility of the OZ spooks, or

- the OZ spooks don't know how to maintain their credibility, or

- it didn't happen

- all of the above

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1. Tuesday 28th May 2013 14:40 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
  
  Re: Credibility factor missing - as usual
  
  or that's what they want you to think !
  
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Tuesday 28th May 2013 00:15 GMT tkioz

I saw it last night and while there was a lot of hype, it was still an interesting watch. There was some American dude on there saying we 'need to hit back!', of course he works for a private company selling 'offensive cyber weapons' so I'll take that with a grain of salt... but what do we steal? Most everything China has is stuff they've got from western companies!

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Tuesday 28th May 2013 04:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Zombified vending machines

"Hello comrade, you want imperial western fizzy drink?"

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Tuesday 28th May 2013 08:30 GMT Anonymous Coward

" A breach might, however, mean anything from black-hats wandering through networks at will to someone carelessly clicking on the link and needing to get trojans cleaned from their machines."

If there is a trojan on a user's machine then there is a blackhat wandering around the network at will, at least for that user account and as soon as a network admin elevates the privileges to do something on the machine for that user, he probably has free access to the network.

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Tuesday 28th May 2013 14:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

Yeah, you're not gonna hide that.

At a guess, I'd say that this is the place ;)

http://goo.gl/maps/gT1PY

Now where did those drainage tunnel plans go?

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