Posted on 10/06/2014 6:28:40 AM PDT by blam
October 6, 2014
James Cook
In his first major television interview, the director of the FBI has warned that Chinese hackers have embarked on a widespread campaign of cyberwarfare against the US.
Speaking to CBS' "60 Minutes," James Comey had the following to say on Chinese hackers:
There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
When asked whether Chinese hackers were particularly good at gaining access to servers belonging to US companies, Comey said the hackers were not actually skilled when it came to covering their tracks.
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Had a friend that worked at a major company. Some Chinese techs toured the place. My friend said they were there for one reason....espionage.
Aren’t we hacking back?
They are not the only ones.
And you know what? The industrial revolution got going in America because people like Samuel Slater stole existing technology and trade secrets from English mills.
To only some extent, since the US generally leads China in industrial R&D. There's less reason for American companies to need info from the Chinese than there is the reverse. I'd think that to the extent there is industrial espionage, it would be targeted primarily at Europeans.
So its ok when the chinese steal from us?
We are no doubt, but the new Chinese online market Alibaba is probably a culmination of all it learned from Amazon, Ebay, PayPal and all the other companies they’ve hacked. Keep changing your passwords and keep track of your finances.
It’s all about the better mouse trap.
Why sure it is!
~bill clinton
Its the same liberal mentality. Well we did it too so its ok.
idiots
BTW, good ole Bill sold our secrets, he didn’t just give em away.
If I were a US company, I wouldn't want my trade secrets stolen. But the process is inevitable. And in the long run it may not be a bad thing - secrets are anti-competitive and limit innovation.
Every rapidly industrializing country - the Americans, the British, the Germans, the Japanese, the Koreans, etc. have stolen trade secrets wherever they could. The English stole industrial technology from the Chinese (porcelain, silk manufacture, tea processing), the Americans stole technology from the English, and now the Chinese are stealing technology from the Americans.
The history of industrial espionage is fascinating and in the long run it's almost impossible to stop. Don't believe me? Ask the Chinese how well their law ordering the execution of anybody who exported silkworms worked...
Yep. Early American industrialists stole English industrial designs -- violating British law - and then improved on them. But they wouldn't have been able to do so if they hadn't stolen the designs in the first place. Was that ethical? Probably not. It was definitely illegal. But it worked.
“But the process is inevitable. And in the long run it may not be a bad thing - secrets are anti-competitive and limit innovation. “
What a bunch of liberal clap trap.
Competition and free markets are liberal? Thanks for clarifying, I was unaware.
Theft is a free market idea?
Well I guess there is something free about.
Why are you supporting Americas enemy? big investments?
I read and understand your comment, but the tone is troubling.
Major difference: The fledgling US just freed itself from Britain’s binds. Using the logic of the tone of your comment, you’re justifying Clinton’s gift to the Chinese as some sort of ‘US wealth-guilt’; it certainly wasn’t due to US hegemony over China.
Good call, but bad example in the context of discussion.
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