![]() In view of all the recent happenings, that’s tantamount to raising the white flag. But despite mounting evidence that Chinese attacks continue relentlessly, there has been no further action. In May 2011, the Pentagon promised it would announce a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks by declaring foreign computer hacks an act of war. 13, as the newspaper was putting its final touches on a report that the relatives of China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings. Like the fact the hackers broke into The Times’ computers starting on Sept. How do we know that? As William Gibson might bark, “ Pattern Recognition!” Computer security experts consulting with The New York Times identified the malware “as a specific strain associated with computer attacks originating in China.” To paraphrase an old newspaper joke, “what’s black and white and red all over?” The Chinese Red Army, that’s who. We’re not talking Anonymous here nor a bunch of ethical hackers. That its private networks had been traversed with impunity by a bunch of brazen hackers. Last Wednesday, The New York Times announced that its computers had been hacked. They’ve read our email by taking down one of America’s pre-eminent technology companies, Google. They’ve breached the networks of the Chamber of Commerce. ![]() They’ve ransacked our technology industry. Every day the Pentagon is attacked 3 million times.
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