US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking

jfruh (300774) writes "The U.S. federal government will announce today indictments of several employees of the Chinese military with hacking into computers to steal industrial secrets. The indictments will be the first of their kind against employees of a foreign government. Among the trade secrets allegedly stolen by the accused are information about a nuclear power plant design and a solar panel company's cost and pricing data."

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Good luck with that.

[pla]

No doubt, China will cooperate fully in extraditing members of their active military so they can stand trial in the US for following their orders.

Not an Obama hater, but seriously, Russia and now China? Trying to start WWIII on two fronts, in case one backs down? 2016 can't come fast enough.

Re:Good luck with that.

[just_another_sean]

If the democrats are the ones currently instigating WWIII than 2016 ain't going to help. If a Republican gets elected (unless it's Ron Paul, and I'm not holding my breath for that!) than their just going to look at the previous 8 years as laying the ground work. And any democrat that gets elected is going to assume that their election is voter approval of the current administration's policies, otherwise the voters would have ousted the Dems and brought in a Rep.

In other words, in a two party system, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't...

These indictments are pure lip service.

[Apharmd]

How will the US enforce them? This will just make our government look weak.

Re:Vs the NSA

[Richard_at_work]

A country can claim jurisdiction anywhere on the planet, but the trick is to be able to enforce that claim of jurisdiction...

Re:Very Bad Precedent

[radja]

There is already a precedent. German soldiers were tried and sentenced for carrying out orders in the concentration camps.