I have a cousin that works in the US Amy in the IT dept. Most of the servers are
run on Linux and Unix. Any he is a big Red Hat fan and laugh at me using Ubie.

Its a good firewall that stop them not Linux. Don't you think the
Chinese hackers know about Linux???

I wonder who could install a spyware on my system without a root password...

It may somehow be possible. I have no idea how. If they can, it will
take a lot more chinese man hours and computer hours to get into linux.
Unless they have unending money to pay for it I suspect they would go
back to playing in their own sandboxes.

You can't rely on Chinese need for lots of people if they
are to successfully hack into Linux. Lots of available people
is their key strategic "strength".

And you can't rely on their need for funds to finance that hacking
either - people over there are willing to work for pennies.
Especially on a job that requires only sitting and thinking.
I've been there twice, and I saw people building roads
entirely by hand (often no machines of any kind) - just to
have a job of any kind.

Never underestimate thy potential enemy - history shows that
approach too often results in disaster. Hacking into the
other side's computer systems is likely to be a key growth
"industry" for a long, long time.

No sense in making it easy for them, though. It pays to take precautions by
using the best available tools, which includes Linux! Linux is not hack proof,
but it is more secure out of the box than any OS and it can be hardened quite
easily to make it even more secure. This makes it hard for them to install key
loggers and other things that they can do in Windows.

In any other setting I would have to deem that
Paranoid thought. Road building was by Chinese cheap labour as in many
other countries in the past not now though, they use earth movers just
like any other advanced nation.

There is more hacking done from the USA than from China right now, today.

Some folk see the enemy behind every bush and Governments love you to
see them.