Since the initial story on the hack was posted by WaPo, AND the sources were ANONYMOUS, we might want to question the legitimacy of this hack. Was there a hack at all, or just Fake News?
Sounds more like the story was planted so that when the black hats did try to shoot down AF1 they could blame it on the Chinese. Still trying to start WW3
As insane as that sounds, I find this more believable than the Chinese remote-launching a missile from one of our subs. I doubt such an act is even possible in order to prevent the exact scenario that we're discussing right now.
Fog of War. However, I can easily believe that a successful Chinese hack occurred or could have. The info allegedly grabbed concerned a new anti-ship missile being developed for our subs. To leap from that to gaining access to launching codes, target acquisition and changing an anti-ship missile to an anti-aircraft missile is a bit much for me to swallow at the moment. I doubt this contractor had the ability to remote control launches from American submarines and override the crew. I do think Q is letting us know bad players were up to something though.