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US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-hack-me-bro dept.

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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  1. Re:Vs the NSA by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yeah it's weird in that regard that they went for opening that pandoras box... the chinese will just indict in response.

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  2. Talk about by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the pot and the kettle.

  3. Does that mean ... by Alain+Williams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that I can sue the NSA for trying to crack my machines and that the USA will extradite the NSA employees to the UK so that they can be tried in our courts ? Do the people at the USA DOJ understand the meaning of the word ''irony'' ?

    This is more outlandish than even something that most political satire writers would have dreamed up.

  4. Do as I say, not... by ThomasBHardy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone else find this particularly ironic and posturing after the "Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers" article earlier?

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  5. Good luck with that. by pla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Good luck with that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "2016 can't come fast enough." You're an idiot if you think that changes ANYTHING AT ALL.

  6. These indictments are pure lip service. by Apharmd · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  7. Re:Vs the NSA by captainpanic · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least that makes for a bulletproof court case: NSA files show that the data is now stored on a Chinese government computer... Oh, wait.

  8. Re:Very Bad Precedent by jbmartin6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the contrary, every person should be held criminally liable for their actions regardless of instructions from "superiors". This would be an excellent precedent, let's get rid of the idea that a person can hide behind an organization or some other conspiracy and not be responsible for their own actions.

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