Suspicions about extensive corporate data theft have swirled around China for years, but never before has the US formally accused the People's Liberation Army with criminal activity. Last year, a report by the information security firm Mandiant concluded that a unit of the PLA, known as Unit 61398, was likely behind data theft comprising hundreds of terabytes. It found that the scale of the espionage was unlikely to have occurred without government sponsorshipMeanwhile on the internet we have pictures of US agents intercepting and planting bugs in routers: This year has seen so much glaring hypocrisy that even sunglasses are of no use.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Do As We Say....
So the US Justice Department is charging Chinese officials of computer hacking.