China breached Japan’s classified defense networks, The Washington Post reports | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

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1. Wooops there it is

2. It was a post-it with the password on the side of the Official’s laptop I bet.

3. Umpossible. Did they hack dialup sounds to intercept fax communications?

4. But what about that multiple billion dollars worth of old anti missile systems the US strong armed them to buy?

5. US knew because they were in there as well lol

6. A Chinese hacker, speaking on condition of anonymity, explained the successful strategy. “The first part of the password is 99% certain to be “oishii”, and after that it’s just guesswork. Usually “gohan”, “tabemono”, “yasai”, “sakana” or “niku” does the trick”.

7. “B- But… I don’t understand. It was a secure network, and nobody can hack into a secure network,” stammered a baffled bureaucrat.

8. This is why no matter how much Kishida wants to join the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, they won’t accept Japan. They couldn’t keep a secret even if they wanted.

   “The Washington Post quote US officials as saying, “Tokyo has taken steps to strengthen its networks. But they are still deemed not sufficiently secure from Beijing’s prying eyes, which could impede greater intelligence sharing between the Pentagon and Japan’s Defense Ministry.”