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The Huffington Post has a story of what must be seen as the height of absurdity. As part of the fallout from the recent indictments of 5 PLA cyber-spies, China is threatening to suspend cooperation on joint US-Chinese cyber-security efforts. What can the world's two biggest players in industrial espionage possibly be cooperating on?
The linked story notes that efforts so far have been largely ineffective. Is there anything the US could realistically do? An IP block sounds tempting, but VPNs render that largely ineffective. Fund open-source firewalls or "advanced persistent threat" filters or ...?
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 20 2014, @02:10PM
That, and trying to spy on their mutual frenemy Russia. As much as I don't like what Vladimir Putin is up to, he's right to think that the US, EU, and China all have it in for him: We've been doing our best to remove his allies in Syria, Ukraine, and Iran.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday May 20 2014, @05:14PM
Well, Russia was pretty much on the path to acceptance prior to Putin's rampage to recover the lost empire. Tourism was up, living standards were way up, exports were strong.
If I was his neighbor I'd be nervous too. Especially if I had a significant population of russian speaking speaking people in my country. That seems to be his criteria.
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