Scary stuff

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cyber-attack-on-us-grid-20090409-a0zb.html#

Cyber attack on US grid

• April 9, 2009

CHINESE and Russian cyber spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report says.

Quoting unidentified intelligence sources and homeland security officials, The Wall Street Journal said cyber spies penetrated the system repeatedly last year, but did not disrupt it. "The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," the paper quoted an intelligence official as saying.

The Cult of Genghis Khan

(Source: The Economist) This article shows how Genghis Khan's exploits have been re-written to become more palatable from a marketing perspective, and the growng issues between Mongolia and China over land and economic dominance.