[pchelpers] Article:Why Overseas Hackers Are Impossible to Catch

Monday, June 23, 2008
By Maggie Koerth-Baker

They're in our computers, reading our files.

The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who
recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret
documents stored on Congressional computers.

The Chinese deny any involvement. But if they were lying, would we be
able to prove it?

The answer, according to computer and security experts, is probably not
— at least not conclusively enough for a court of law.

"It's very difficult to track hacker attacks, and even if you can track
it, you don't always know with 100 percent certainty if you're right,"
said James Lewis, director and senior fellow of the Technology and
Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington, D.C.

That was the problem faced by the investigators who attempted to figure
out who broke into computers used by the staff of Rep. Christopher H.
Smith, R-N.J., and Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va.

More here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370243,00.html
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