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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: 2) by exaeta on Thursday May 14 2020, @01:46PM
The real fight of course, is fought before the primaries start. It's more about who you manage to get on the ballot box than who you vote for. You act as though better canididates don't exist. The truth is that they do, people are just too dumb to vote for them. Take bernie sanders for example, an intelligent, *honest* politician. And people STILL voted for Joe Biden because he came out in favor of special interest groups. People are stupid.
Teachers are appointed by *someone* if they aren't elected. It might be pricipal or school district supervisor or some drone in HR, but they are definitely not elected. The dumb person may not be a voter but they are the product of dumb people getting promotions and heretics that suggest change being removed from the system. An outside force has to come in to disrupt the system by forcibly installing new blood into positions of power. The political system must intervene to break up the stupidity in the education system but for some reason this is unpopular with voters.
The notion that politicians support different groups of people is nonsense. Divisionary politicts harms *everyone* and voters are stupid for not seeing through it. Harming one group harms everyone because society operates best as a well oiled machine. We have politicians throwing wrenches in the machine where they don't belong. And people are dumb for not seeing through it. Making excuses for stupidity like "stress" is counterproductive. We cannot justify it if we want to achieve a solution to the problem. People need to be aware that their own voting behavior is problematic.
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