Marine Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills admitted in a conference last week that they used cyberwarfare against their opponents in Afghanistan.

“I can tell you that as a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact,” Mills said. “I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations.”

Though state-sponsored cyberattack is not a secret, it’s still not something the government wants you to know about especially when they chastise countries who practice this.  The Pentagon did not want to elaborate on what Mills stated but they clarified that their cyber operations were properly authorized and that they took place within the bounds of international law and the “confines of existing policy.”

Earlier this month, the government made it known to the public that the Chinese government already has a hacking army which targets other governments.  It was found out that critical data and e-mail which belongs to the president of the European Union Council, Herman Van Rompuy, were stolen by a Chinese hacker group called ‘Comment/ Byzantine Candor’.   Also, malicious activities within the Indian Naval computers were traced to IP addresses from China and Chinese-codes.  The government make it seem like China was doing something really bad so U.S. President Obama endorsed the Cybersecurity Bill.  And that’s just ironic.  A government wanting to combat state-sponsored hacking is sponsoring hackers themselves.  What is the world coming to?