Read these two stories and tell me that (1) we're not at war with, or at least under attack by, an actual foreign power with the actual ability to do us harm and (2) we're losing. Oh yeah, and neither side really wants us peasants to know what's going on:

WaPo:

Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers have launched a debilitating attack on the computer system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau, forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and block employees from regular use of the Internet for more than a month, Commerce officials said yesterday.

Reuters story in Scientific American:

(Reuters) - China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.

The Defense Department remains tight-lipped about details, including which satellite was involved or when it occurred.

I almost called this the "Second Turd in the Friday News Dump" but the satellite story has been kicking around for a couple of days by now. The Commerce Department side of things has obviously been in progress for some months but is just being announced now--late Friday? Big surprise--so it would otherwise have qualified. I just thought the two kinda seemed to go together.

have a nice weekend....