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The news here isn't that China has been hacking US companies. The news is that the USA has started calling them out on it. I wonder if this signals a shift in foreign policy?

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The US has been calling China out on hacking as early as 2008, but insinuating that the Chinese gov't was involved in incidents back to the mid-2000's. 2008 Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/12/hacking-on-h...

I think the real news is that China isn't publicly denying these incidents anymore. Though, it seems like nothing has really changed.

budget season

Or justification for funding?

True. This hacking certainly gives CIOs and cybersecurity chiefs something to point at when justifying budgets and centralizing initiatives. The hacking has undesirable consequences far beyond just the loss of IP.

I doubt it has anything to do with foreign policy and more to do with pushing from the private sector (i.e. RSA, Semantec etc).

If they were really concerned about espionage and eavesdropping, the first thing they would do is make sure that the phone lines to the White House were run by domestic companies and not a company with links to Israeli intelligence.

Even if poltician won't admit it among one of the more negative election season America economy is improving and become less reliant on China that being said we are becoming more confident in the fact that sooner or later we won't need them and that we won't have to keep taking these attacks because of our dependence. Hopefully we can improve our defense and maybe do some offense.

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