“There has always been industrial espionage, and sometimes it has involved governments spying on behalf of their home industries. In the last decade, however, China has stretched that practice to the point where it threatens the international economic system. By harnessing the power of the Internet and engaging in systematic, global industrial espionage on a massive scale, China’s cyber spies have made a mockery of international protections of intellectual property rights and patents.”
— So relieved to see more details finally start to leak their way out, not only in this — Richard Clarke’s — post, but in Reuters and in Adam Segal’s testimony to the House, too. (Previously: Chinese hackers destroy 10,000 French Computers/hack South Korea’s Defense Network.)
