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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.
Translation: China has pretty much stolen everything it wants.
Phew! Crisis averted. I'll switch off my firewall.
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.
Everybody in the USA knows China has been grabbing everything it can by digital espionage for a long time now.
And ha ha, guess what -- thanks to Snowden, everybody in China, not to mention the world, knows that the USA indiscriminately grabs whatever it can from foreign sources.
Only a fool would believe that either side has any intentions of stopping.
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.
Think about all of the technology that the US has and has had compared to China. Do you honestly believe that the US gov hacked Chinese businesses to try to get past them? Intellectual property theft is moving in almost completely one direction and that is from the US to China, not the other way around, so I'd be very happy to take that bet.
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.
For what it's worth, http://longtail.it.marist.edu/... shows a significant drop off of attacks from China yesterday (Thursday) and today (Friday). FYI: Longtail is an ssh brute force analysis program with 11 ssh honeypots live today. I've been getting almost 300,000 attempts per day, but only got about 75,000 yesterday, and 88,000 (so far) today.
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!