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Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China
bdking writes "Former White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke says state-sanctioned Chinese hackers are stealing R&D from U.S. companies, threatening the long-term competitiveness of the nation. He said, 'The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments. There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China. The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing [many believe that Chinese hackers gave Boeing secrets to Airbus]. We don’t hack our way into a Chinese computer company like Huawei and provide the secrets of Huawei technology to their American competitor Cisco. [He believes Microsoft, too, was a victim of a Chinese cyber con game.] We don’t do that. ... We hack our way into foreign governments and collect the information off their networks. The same kind of information a CIA agent in the old days would try to buy from a spy. ... Diplomatic, military stuff but not commercial competitor stuff.'"
Yeah, the red Chinese are utterly morally bankrupt at an individual, as well as a national level. I've seen how mainland Chinese operate, up close and personal. And the West has had decades to wake up to the threat from the rising superpower that always refuses to play by the rules.
Part of me says that the US corporate Right are full of weak, greedy idiots. And weak, greedy idiots always come a cropper sooner or later. The trouble with this situation, is that the corporate Right, in their weakness and folly, will take the West down with them. Whether it's gaming regulators, dismantling institutions, undermining government, or engaging in outright corruption, they match the Chinese in their immorality, but don't share the Chinese' rat-cunning, sense of patriotism, loyalty to their own culture -- or sense of self-preservation.
Doesn't excuse the behaviour of the Chinese though. They need to be given a bloody nose.