03.11.13
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The White House on Monday accused China of hacking U.S. companies on an “unprecedented scale” and demanded that the attacks stop, in the administration’s most pointed public criticism yet.
National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon called on the Chinese government to recognize the urgency of this issue, investigate and stop the alleged hacking, and be part of a process to create international rules of the road for appropriate activities in cyberspace.
“Increasingly, U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyber intrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale,” Mr. Donilon told the Asia Society in New York. “The international community cannot afford to tolerate such activity from any country,” he said.
One almost pities the current administration.
The Republican Party refuses to recognize the result of the November election with the result being the president cannot govern, except when it comes to these types of petty exercises in reprimanding the alleged great menaces to corporate America. And the President cannot make such a frank statement without creating an international incident.
So he listens to the really bad advice from the national security infrastructure and gives the green light for one of our country’s many colorless protection men of no note or accomplishment, often with an “assistant” in his title, to issue a proclamation. That no one listens to, or should.
For a corporate America that threw all its support behind the Republican Party last year.
Honestly, it’s hard to imagine how our cyberwar and national security shoeshine boys sleep at night, inhabiting, as they do, a world that is all moral hazard. Well, they probably either were, or became, sociopaths a long time ago.
“With the Dow Jones industrial average flirting with a record high, the split between American workers and the companies that employ them is widening …” reported the New York Times a week ago.
“The U.S. corporate sector is in a lot better health than the overall economy. And until we get a full recovery in the labor market, this will persist.
“The result has been a golden age for corporate profits, especially among multinational giants that are also benefiting from faster growth in emerging economies like China and India.”
Oh, the Chinese are hacking Apple and everybody else, too! It’s really working!