Besides being worried about Big Brother

we need to be worried about Big Cousin:

Computerworld, sourcing its story primarily from Newsweek, reports that the campaign computer systems of both John McCain and Barack Obama were broken into by a “foreign entity” looking to get information that would be useful in negotiations with the next US President. The speculation in the article was that either Russia or China was responsible.

According to the Newsweek story, a federal agent told Obama campaign officials that they had an IT security problem “way bigger than what you understand. You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system.”

Technical staffers working for Obama later speculated that the hackers might have been from China or Russia, the story says. It adds that a security firm retained by the campaign later plugged the security holes.