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China Expands Cyberspying In US, Report Says
An anonymous reader writes "A new report published by The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission wags a finger at the People's Republic of China for conducting Internet-borne espionage operations against United States high-tech companies. The paper, written by defense giant Northrop Grumman, provides a detailed case study of one such intrusion that moved large volumes of sensitive tech data out of a US firm in 2007. From a Wall Street Journal article, '"The case study is absolutely clearly controlled and directed with a specific purpose to get at defense technology in a related group of companies," said Larry Wortzel, vice chairman of the commission and a former U.S. Army attaché in China. "There's no doubt that that's state-controlled."' Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, criticized the commission as "a product of Cold War mentality" that was "put in place to pick China to pieces." He added: "Accusations of China conducting, or 'likely conducting' as the commission's report indicates, cyberspace attacks or espionage against the US are unfounded and unwarranted.'"
This report and story are simply American government propaganda. It is difficult to keep Americans believing that this is the "Land of the Free" without creating some sort of external threat. Sometimes those nasty Iranians with their nuclear missile programs are the biggest danger to our American way of life. Other times, it's those copycat Chinese with their industrial espionage trying to take jobs away from good, hard working Americans.
The story in this case is based on the assumption that there is anything worth stealing that is stored on Internet-reachable servers. It's a completely different story when you start questioning why secret information would be put anywhere near the biggest information network in the world. Is the problem a nefarious hacker country, or is the problem an incompetent American government?
Odds are both. However, remove the beam from thine own eye, and all that.
Im shocked. Really shocked. Or perhaps not...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#cite_note-zeit-0 In other words: So what? Is normal competitive behaviour when the USA is spying, but evil when the USA is the victim? Cry me a river.