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Inside the FBI's Fight Against Chinese Cyber-Espionage (foreignpolicy.com)
19 points by ghosh on June 2, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


DOJ Plans To Indict State-Sponsored Cyber Attackers http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121218/C4ISR01/31218000...

The above article was published in 2012. They are right on track, all predictions, down to the last detail, have come true in 2014.


I can't help but to be amused by the irony of the NSA systematically weakening computer security and swooping in to help the FBI when American companies become victims of foreign spies that exploit poor security.


What's even worse is creating a market in zero-day exploits. That's like doing biology research by creating a freelance development market in bioterror microbes.


I got it. The NSA keeps us safe, the Chinese spy on us. Sure thing.


As a German, I feel very much the same.


Not so easy to stop foreign spies when you've been caught doing it to everyone else.

(That said, while they are hypocrites, they are still in the right)


Plot twist: the FBI doesn't have a cyber-espionage division (which would fall under NSA or CIA jurisdiction.). The whole department is a Chinese plant.


Let the 'war on Chinese hacking' begin (now that the 'war on drugs' is lost and the 'war on terror' is off the front pages). Was this supposed to distract us from Obama handing over Guantanamo terrorists or that Snowden used all the appropriate channels to report the NSA's illegal activities?

At least the US hasn't been gaining unfair competitive advantage in Chinese markets via their own 'deep burrows'.




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