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Cyber Exploitation

A New Cold War, in Cyberspace, Tests U.S. Ties to China: NYT

Man, I love Sunday nights, the NYT or WashPo always drops something good around 9-10pm.

For tonight’s article, David Sanger writes for The New York Times on the China-U.S. relationship and how the USG might respond to pervasive Chinese cyberexploitation.  A few interesting tidbits:

  • USG released a list of malicious computer addresses, but declined to say “that nearly every one of the digital addresses could be traced to the neighborhood in Shanghai” that Mandiant pinpointed.\
  • The Obama administration was “perfectly happy” to have Mandiant issue its report, and for those questioning Mandiant’s methods/conclusions, “American officials said privately that they had no problems with Mandiant’s conclusions, but they did not want to say so on the record.”
  • Sanger reports that “[i]n the next few months . . . there will be many private warnings delivered by Washington to Chinese leaders.  . . .”

Sanger goes on to discuss the US-Chinese relationship, the parallels between the Cold War and the current environment, and when the administration might consider a counterattack.  Check out David Sanger’s NYT article here.

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