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U.S. Officials: Beware Of China And Others Trying To Steal COVID-19 Research
As researchers around the globe race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, U.S. authorities are warning American firms to exercise extreme caution in safeguarding their research against China and others with a track record of stealing cutting-edge medical technology.
"We are imploring all those research facilities and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that are doing really great research to do everything in their power to protect it," Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview with NPR.
"We don't want that company or the research hospital to be the one a year from now, two years from now, identified as having it all stolen before they finished it," said Evanina, whose center falls under the director of national intelligence.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Britain's National Cyber Security Center recently issued a statement saying hackers are "actively targeting organisations ... that include healthcare bodies, pharmaceutical companies, academia, medical research organisations, and local government."
The statement did not name China or any other country. Reuters reported that hackers linked to Iran tried to break into email accounts at the U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences, which has a potentially promising drug to treat the COVID-19 virus. Iran denied the report.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 12 2020, @11:45PM (13 children)
I thought the US believed Covid-19 was a hoax?
:)
It used to be that research was shared freely around the world so that a solution could be found quickly: now it is all about patents and "PROFIT!", so that the same research is done over and over and over and kept secret.
It's a shame that the human race is so based on money and not human welfare.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 13 2020, @01:30AM (12 children)
I reckon only some of Trump's supporters did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday May 13 2020, @01:53AM (10 children)
As far as I can tell, most of his supporters still seem to think so. Some of them are basically saying the whole thing is a big conspiracy so the Illuminati can take over the world. I wish I was joking, but this is seriously what a large fraction of Americans believe these days.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Wednesday May 13 2020, @06:17AM (8 children)
I thought that was already the kind of mentality long before Trump came along. I mean those supermarket checkout tabloid talking about UFOs and Bigfoot are so popular for so long now - there must be enough cuckoos around to keep those business viable. But sure lets blame it on Trump, might as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @12:53PM (2 children)
I still remember the one with "photographic proof" that aliens abducted cows.
The proof was a picture of cows grazing on a hillside, and another picture of that same hillside with... NO COWS!"
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Wednesday May 13 2020, @01:22PM (1 child)
Maybe there were no cows, but how much cowbell was there?
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday May 13 2020, @03:36PM
I couldn't tell, I keep the guitar amp turned up to 11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @02:02PM (2 children)
Well said. Trump didn't invent the phenomenon and he doesn't really convince people. Instead people are attracted to him, and he just taps into their crazy.
The only question is the L. Ron Hubbard conundrum. Is he smarter than believing the shit he puts out and is really doing a con job, or is he really as dumb as those who follow him? Me, I think he's just as blind as his followers and really is that stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:44PM (1 child)
I think its a bit of both. He's not smart like we how we would normally attribute that word, but he's a shrewd, ruthless and have enough business smarts to be more successful in business than your average joe sixpack.
What I find amusing though is the "smart" people just blaming everything on him when it is so apparent that he's just manipulating situations for his own purpose.
I find it even more entertaining when celebrities's head blows up when ranting about Trump, that's more entertaining than whatever flick they've done - and some have won awards! If that isn't the pinnacle of reality TV, I don't know what is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @04:22PM
I wish I could believe that. He's ruthless, yes. He's had some successes. But there is no proof that he's more successful than anyone else would have been having given his advantages. Questions have been asked [fortune.com] about this very point.
And yes, it's kind of easy to blame him when he should bear the responsibility for the things he says and does or does not. It's just as amazing that he can manipulate others into believing he's in charge of everything without taking responsibility for his mistakes.
Gee, show me some of the celebrities heads who have blown up? I see a lot of them calling him out on his bullshit, but very little 'head blowing up' as you put it. I'm sure you'll find some for me, but I see a lot more invective, name calling, and shouting down of those speaking the truth by Trump and his supporters than any of his opponents. Hard to believe that somebody whom his supporters feel is great and wonderful can't even get 50% approval.... almost like only a little less than half the country support him where more than half are opposed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday May 13 2020, @02:48PM (1 child)
Hey, I never blamed Trump for this. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm just pointing out what a bunch of Americans believe. As another responder pointed out, this kind of crazy has been around long before Trump, but he's brought it out into the open and made it socially acceptable.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:47PM
My bad. I wasn't saying you did, was referring to the more general practice of "Blame Trump".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @03:09PM
Lots of them don't think covid-19 itself is a hoax, but they don't think that it's a serious enough disease to lockdown. They think the death counts are overcounts.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mcgrew on Wednesday May 13 2020, @03:04PM
Some of Trump's supporters, none of them with an IQ over 70, still do. This is the worst possible time to have a narcissistic, incompetent pathological liar in the White House.
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