Who ... Us?!!
"And given that China's policy position is that such activity is absolutely illegal, our two countries clearly need to work together to figure out how to enforce that policy more effectively, because right now the evidence suggests China's policy enforcement approaches are not working adequately."
Craig Mundie, senior advisor to CEO, Microsoft
"The long-term interest of the Chinese government is to investigate and halt these cyber intrusions wherever in this country they come from. The U.S. government is taking an active role in addressing this issue and we continue to raise our concerns with senior Chinese officials."Well, someone is rather naive. And perhaps that's what the Chinese are counting on; the continued willingness of international authorities to pretend to believe Beijing when it denies having any knowledge of cyber attacks and Internet-based espionage. Wherever it emanates from, it has nothing whatever to do with the government itself.
Robert Hormats, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth
Obviously, some very clever and talented, and rogue individuals and groups have undertaken their own enterprising forays into international espionage. And they're not without their notable successes. Which of course is what makes the situation so troubling to governments and corporate interests that like to believe they're sovereign and their websites inviolable to entry.
China, along with Anonymous the equally notorious hacking group, have proven otherwise.
But it is most ignoble of them. And most inconvenient for corporations to realize that they can lose their competitive edge because of the kind of espionage that seeks to advantage others with their hard-earned formulae. And no government agencies like to think that they are being immobilized and the state secrets entrusted to them abducted by malign interests.
Despite China's very passionate declarations of innocence, the evidence is incontrovertible; Internet security company Mandiant has forensically detailed data that allows them with full confidence in its accuracy, to accuse a Chinese military unit of being responsible for hacking attacks against European and North American government sites and foreign companies for obvious advantage.
The theft of sensitive state and corporate information is known to have reached high levels, bruising the very concept of protection for intellectual property rights. The American undersecretary of state for economic reform has urged China to action, reminding Chinese officials to consider whether such activity "serves China's real interests", as it moves to upgrade its economy.
Obviously, they've done just that, and quite as obviously they've reached the conclusion that it does.
But denial does serve a purpose: "Our opposition to all forms of hacking is clear and consistent. Lately people have been cooking up a theory of a Chinese Internet threat, which is just an extension of the old 'China threat' and just as groundless", protested Qian Xiaoqian, vice minister and deputy director of the State Internet Information Office.
So ... there!
Labels: China, Controversy, Cyberwarfare, Security, United States
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, April 11, 2013
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