What? Cyber-Spying? ...
Meanwhile, we continue to fund the rise of growing rival superpower China with our muddle-headed stubborn belief in “free trade”.
While our own country’s manufacturing base, crumbles.
Why spy when you can give obama $5 and he’ll tell you all you want to know?
This same complaint has been issued for more than a decade, and the same two culprits, China and Russia have been named. Apparently, our ability to counter the attacks have been as feeble as our economy, our education system, and, especially, our political will.
Why don’t they just read the NYT?
No acts of war, though. Or....
Stealing trade secrets is a huge problem, especially in the automotive industry. The biggest perpetrators are the chinese, followed by the koreans, and then the indians. It’s so bad that the unwritten rule is that no asians are allowed in the shop, period. One of my previous employers in the machine tool industry was really burned by the koreans stealing their trade secrets. And they barely recovered from that loss.
‘The military and intelligence services of Russia and China are conducting a sustained campaign to steal American commercial and military secrets through cyber espionage...’
Wow, there’s a shocker.
The flip side of this is that its real easy to plant decoy data on systems that are under attack or vulnerable.