The Chinese select their hackers like they choose their Olympic athletes. They canvass four and five year olds for potential and if selected the children will spend the rest of their lives learning how to hack and putting these skill to use.
This program started back in the mid 90s and is apparently reaping benefits.
Well don’t keep the data on top secret projects online! Problem solved.
We still have several advantages.
1. We are more innovative, more creative.
2. Along with the “good stuff”, they have to wade through a lot of crap. If they really have “all” of our stuff, just sorting through it will take them a long time. By then we will have moved further ahead.
3. They have to figure out what to do with it and how. For example, information on how to build nuclear weapons is out there, but look at all the problems the Iranians are having.