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Recently, Google announced that Chinese hackers broke into their servers and stole some intellectual property from them. The author of the article passed us an interesting idea from Trevor T, the author of the Dark Visitor blog about Chinese hackers, stating that China may stay behind the U.S. in military achievements, but it developed capabilities to offset this disadvantage through hackers. I’m sure the U.S. government trained some military and intelligence hackers too, but is it enough? I still see U.S. Army officers recruiting on campus for Air Force, Navy, and Marines, but not for the cyber-warriors. Besides, no legal organization in the United States promotes hacking; in fact, punishment for hacking is severe. On the contrary, hacking in China is popular, and the Chinese government, with all its totalitarian control, allows people to publish hacking-related technical papers on Chinese websites. U.S. would give its citizens the right to bear arms (United States Bill of Rights, Second Amendment), but won’t give them freedom to develop viruses and other malware, hack computer systems with restricted access, and practice amateur hacking to prepare the nation to face “red” hackers in a cyber war. Due to those different approaches to hacking we are most likely going to lose the cyber war with China, and will have to physically fight using the ancient methods of the 20th century. I believe, in this country of liberty the second amendment to the Constitution – the right to keep and bear arms – has to be modified for arms to also include the hacking literature and sets of hacking tools legally available for each citizen who wants to learn hacking to protect themselves and their nation from a cyber attack.

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