[samstave]

I have commented about this in the past; when I was at lockheed, in 2006, we had security debriefings about chinese hacking attempts.

There were trojans on the network that were sending little data packets back to china... but more interestingly:

Lockheed employees were not allowed to connect their macines to any foreign network. Even of those which were suppliers.

There was a supplier in Taiwan where employees would go and would transfer some files via sneakernet (USB keys) - the supplier had been hacked and the chinese were using the Taiwanese suppliers machines to attack the lockheed employees via the transfer of the USB sticks.

The point is that don't underestimate Chinese hackers and the potntial vectors they are willing to exploit.