Editor's Notes

I heard an interesting stat the other day that I'd like to have confirmed. Apparently the Iraq war has led to the highest wounded-to-killed ratio of any major conflict in human history. Yikes.

Maybe it's farfetched and, as they say, Chinese are some of my best friends, but given the recent satellite attack, if this is a group of Chinese hackers, then maybe they could be going after something really big...
A hacker attack on the Internet failed this week — but experts warn there could be more to come.
Three of the 13 computers that help direct all Internet traffic were hit with a flood of data requests Tuesday. Although it's not yet clear where the torrent came from, it was most likely designed to overwhelm the computers, says Peter Reiher, a professor at UCLA's engineering school.
Hackers commonly use this approach, called a denial of service attack, to cause computers to slow down or crash.
If the attack had been successful, Internet traffic might have slowed to a crawl. But the technical groups that quietly run the Internet behind the scenes have built a system designed to reroute traffic during an attack. It appeared to have worked, since few users noticed any slowdown, says Edward Naughton, a Boston-based lawyer at Holland & Knight who specializes in Internet issues.
"It's an indication that the system is well designed," he says.

Feb 28:

Add to that the government manipulation that caused this weeks buckle in the Chinese and then US and EU stock markets and you really start to wonder what the heck is up?