Just goes to show... NOBODY IS SAFE!!!

Oh, well allrighty then.....as you were.

Awright...awright. Back to work. Nuthin' to see to here. Move along now..............move along.........................zip...shuttin' up. 

Wonder if Microsoft was using Internet Explorer when this happened.

C'mon, it's full of holes, they know that... which is why MS uses Fireox; Safari; Chrome; Maxthon; Opera; Netscape; Comodo Dragon.... anything but f**kin' Internet Explorer.

Its easy to make light of this but this is another example of a growing problem.

Massive scale organised state hacking instigated by the Chinese Government, we [the west] are at war but our leaders don't want to face the truth. Probably because they have allowed something like 80% of our productive capacity to relocate there.

Sooner or later this is going to escalate into something.

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/google-boss-blasts-china-as-a-tech-menace-and-hacker-50010331/

https://forums.wincustomize.com/440440

Okay, so does anyone have the short list........you know, the one that shows who hasn't been hacked.  

TwoWolves, you are right.  You're government, and mine allowed too much industry to be exported offshore and too many local manufacturing jobs to be lost.  Of course it will come back to bite us.  First off, most of our manufacturing infrastructre is in a state of disrepair or is simply gone, so that when we again need to make our own, we can't, well not without great expense... and who's going to foot the bill?  Secondly, the Chinese manufacturing and economic bubbles will burst.  Why?  Because China is still wracked with poverty issues, corruption issues, and an economy that's fragmented and not the most stable among leading world economies.  And when those bubbles burst the US and other foolish countries who more or less handed the Chinese their industries on a platter will face shortages of many consumer goods and various essentials, thus causing an economic meltdown as stores fail to keep up with demand and have to lay off staff.

Paint a pretty dark picture, don't I?  Yeah, well I've seen it coming for years, as I watched Australian industries base their manufacturing operations offshore to exploit cheap labour and make millions from it.  I've watched factories fall into disrepair and/or get torn down, so when we really need them again to make our own goods, they just won't be there... and our f**king businessmen won't spend up to get it going again. Oh no, they'll expect government to prop up their sorry asses after bailing out on Australia for greater profit. 

Yeah, our entire retail industry will go down the toilet as it'll have little or nothing to sell... and we're only a small country compared to the US [population-wise], so the problems there will be tenfold or more when China goes guts up... and/or simply refuses to trade anymore.  And then there's all the US loans and sureties the Chines hold.  Yup, the situation is the creation of past and present business and government leaders, yours and ours, yet those bastards will be the first to invoke the patriotic call and get the ordinary bloke to get 'em out of the shit.... either as cannon fodder or as slave labour.

Yup, bet your sweet bippy on it.

And if you don't have a bippy, you can borrow one from China and bet on it.

Jafo hones his knives.

Your.    

Problem could be solved in 90-180 days.  Agree to work for what the foreign labor works for.  Factories will be back.

He can hone his knives all he wants... I've already been... yeah, well, that's another story for another time... or is that ty'me?

If they're still there... even operational.  Saw a documentary about factories in and around Detroit... many had been ransacked as they lay idle; many had their machinery ripped out and melted down for scrap; others were just demolished; and others had been converted into residential lots.  According to the documentary, it was just more of a continuing pattern right across the States.  Moreover, much of the manufacturing workforce, like it has been in Australia, has been retrained in other areas... IT, and the like, so there are few experienced/qualified factory workers to fill positions ... IF they were created. 

No, and sadly so, manufacturing in Australia and the US [many other Western nations] is of a bygone era, and simply selling servces doesn't cut the mustard economically.  I keep hearing Wayne Swann, our Treasurer say how good a shape the Australian economy is, but without a true manufacturing base to that economy, and there isn't, not any more, he's talking shite and concealing the fact that Australia is in deep shit economically.  No doubt you have a similar idiot in Washington spinning the same crap.

A lot more than just one, actually...

The best prevailing wage locations are where the companies will go.  The only way to bring manufacturing back, in any meaningful way, is to eliminate (or make trivial) corporate taxes (it is truly double taxation, anyway) and enact right-to-work laws where they don't exist.  Let the unions compete for members - if what they provide is valuable enough to them, they'll join.  Things have to make economic sense for companies to resume manufacturing here (or Oz).  If we don't provide an economic climate conducive to manufacturing, it won't happen.  Expecting patriotism to be enough is wishful thinking, as has already been clearly demonstrated.

Of course, the flip side of the equation is lower consumer cost of goods, enabling a higher standard of living.  Markets are like water - they will slip through cracks and find level.

They probably hacked themselves.

"gotta get rid of that win8" they said to themselves...