New York Times – Richard Clarke: How China Steals Our Secrets
By RICHARD A. CLARKE | Published: April 2, 2012
“…It’s not hard to imagine what happens when an American company pays for research and a Chinese firm gets the results free; it destroys our competitive edge. Shawn Henry, who retired last Friday as the executive assistant director of the F.B.I. (and its lead agent on cybercrime), told Congress last week of an American company that had all of its data from a 10-year, $1 billion research program copied by hackers in one night. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, head of the military’s Cyber Command, called the continuing, rampant cybertheft “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.”….”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-our-secrets.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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