In order to attack China, the United States really did a great job, not only in tariffs to restrict China, but also in all aspects to combat China's development, on October 19, the Ministry of National Security disclosed the major US cyber attack on China!
From 2022, the United States began to use a brand of mobile phones, to conduct cyber attacks on China's timing center, do not underestimate this timing center, if China in the future there is a war, China's power grid and transportation and so on will face the point of paralysis.
Why did the U.S. do this and how important is the time center for China?
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This time is not time.
When we pay with our phones, jump out of the screen for a successful transaction moment, or open the navigation app, that little blue arrow precisely guides us through the intricate gateway, we may never have thought that behind all this convenience is the “time center” dominating.
But the "timing center" is not time, not the minutes and seconds passing on our wrists, but the ultra-high-precision synchronization in nanoseconds. This existence that we can hardly perceive has quietly constituted the "stealth operating system" of modern society. Now the United States is trying to paralyze a country from within by attacking this system.
This is not the plot in the novel, but what really happened. Time, the physical weight and measure once considered to pass uniformly, is now the most crucial part of the whole modern civilization, because we have built everything on its absolute precision and unity.
First of all, you can see the importance of money., on Wall Street or Lujiazui, those high-frequency trading executed by supercomputers can win or lose in microseconds. A microsecond timestamp error may lead to the instant evaporation of massive wealth, which in turn leads to catastrophic market risks.
that's not all , behind the electricity we use every day is a huge and complex power grid, requiring a high degree of time synchronization of all nodes to achieve stable distribution, Once the time benchmark is disrupted, the self-regulatory mechanisms of the grid fail, potentially causing large-scale power outages, and economic and social stability is firmly linked to “time.”
Not only that, We are proud of high-speed trains., can accurately dispatch and operate at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, relying on time synchronization. This is especially true for flights in the sky. If there is no unified time for the air traffic control system, the consequences will be unimaginable.
This is by no means alarmist, During the Gulf War, the US military's own Patriot missile system had a timing error of only 0.343 seconds, which caused a deviation in interception calculations and missed the incoming Scud missile. As a result, 28 soldiers were killed on the spot., this difference of a few tenths of a second is the distance between life and death on the battlefield.
Even in the fields at the forefront of the unknown, time accuracy determines how far we can go. In a deep space exploration mission like Chang'e 6, a time error of just one microsecond could cause the probe to generate a position deviation of 30 meters on the Moon., so the precise time is the "ruler" for us to expand our cognitive boundaries.
How important is time?
Because time is so critical and fragile, the time that is "weaponized" is even more terrible. Attacks against time are evolving from traditional cyber warfare and becoming a more advanced and covert strike paradigm. Its goal is no longer to blow up an aircraft carrier or a building, but to directly disintegrate a country's nerve center and paralyze opponents at the cognitive level.
Officials have proven that the U.S. National Security Agency has begun a long-term and covert operation in 2022, targeting the National Timing Center located at the China Academy of Sciences.
At first they didn't break into the data center, but Taking advantage of an unknown loophole in the SMS service of a foreign brand mobile phoneThrough this gap, they More than 10 core staff of the time service center were secretly monitoredThe intelligence investigation was silently completed.
After the United States has enough information, the attackers will Attack with up to 42 different functions of special cyber weaponsThis is no longer a piece of hacking, but a state-dominated, highly industrialized system that operates with these tools. They successfully stole and obtained the timing system’s login credentials.
After succeeding, they did not destroy it immediately, but chose to lurk. They deeply penetrated the network of the National Time Service Center and tried to implant destructive programs in advance. This tactical patience is extremely terrible. What they pursue is not small fights, but at the most critical moment, if a war breaks out, they will use the timing center to paralyze the entire system of the target country.
Especially during the Chang'e 6 mission, the intensity and intensity of this attack became intense.The intention of the United States is very obvious. This style of play reflects the upgrading of the United States 'strategic thinking. It avoids hard weapons such as aircraft carriers and missiles and directly attacks the core of social operations. It not only has low costs and low risks, but can even be denied afterwards.
has a long-term layout
The ultimate goal of the United States is to achieve a way to win without using force by triggering a collapse within the target. Faced with this threat of "weaponization of time", China has not been passively beaten. China has been making forward-looking arrangements for decades.
Time is the thing, if you don't even have the ability to define it, then all the defenses have nothing to say. As early as 1958, China began to establish its own universal time system, getting rid of dependence step by step. Today, the accuracy of our optical lattice atomic clock has reached an astonishing 60 million years and no less than one second.
This confidence gives us a real say in the basic research level of time science. Beidou, which will be fully completed in 2020, is not only a navigation system, but also a "time highway" covering the whole country and even the whole world. It can distribute the precise time generated by ourselves to every corner of the country with nanosecond accuracy.
From generation to broadcast, we have formed a completely autonomous and controllable timing closed loop. Moreover, in the National Timing Center, the most core equipment is physically isolated to cut off any possibility of physical contact. All transmission of time signals is subject to complex encryption to prevent signals from being tampered with during the journey.
More importantly, we have established a complex multi-source backup system to ensure that if any node goes wrong, other systems can immediately top it. This system is not an armchair strategist. This carefully planned and long-lasting attack by the US National Security Agency was finally successfully intercepted by our defense system, which is also the best confirmation of our decades of active defense.
Now the game between China and the United States has obviously transcended the traditional sea, land, air and space, and entered a deeper and more basic field. This offensive and defensive incident is by no means just an ordinary cybersecurity incident. It also indicates that the competition between major powers in the future will be more focused on those "soft spots" that are invisible and intangible, but are fatal in one blow.
Keeping our own "Beijing time" means keeping the bottom line of security in all fields such as communications, finance, transportation, and national defense. This silent war around time competes not only on technical offense and defense, but also on strategic foresight and national level Endurance, what do you think about this matter?
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