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The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace
blottsie writes: The leaders of China and the United States agreed on Friday to take new steps to address cyberspying, vowing that neither country would conduct or knowingly support the theft of intellectual property. Senior law-enforcement and intelligence officials from both nations will evaluate how the two major powers respond to each other's requests for assistance fighting "malicious cyber activity," the White House said in a statement. The group will hold its first meeting before the end of the year, with subsequent meetings occurring twice per year.
No. And your trite oversimplification is utterly worthless. We make the agreement so that when China *does* break it, we have a protocol in place for responding. We contact the Chinese government, we point at the malicious behavior, and we expect them to correct it. If they do not, then we have put in a good-faith effort, and we can enact our own consequences.
It's a first step. It's not the entire solution. But we have to start somewhere.
I almost peed myself laughing... Were they able to keep their faces straight when they were "agreeing"?
My money is on that US broke the agreement before China did.
Yes, I assume that it happened before this news hit Slashdot.
Translation: both sides will work harder at hiding it.
In all reality I'd bet neither side intends to abide by it. It's yet another treaty not worth the paper it's written on.
So, we're going to trust China not to hack?!
Every bit as much as they're going to trust the U.S. not to hack them.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Obama is not sending jobs to China. Corporations are.
My guess is that both sides will start to do it Russian style - outsource the "data acquisition" step to 3rd parties. In Russian case those are outright criminal organizations, mixing business with pleasure, so to speak.