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I don't get the whining. US spies on everyone, Israel spies on the US heavily, Russia spies on the US as well. Why the hell does the US keep whining about Chine

• eitally 13y ago
  The difference here is that it's not just US government entities being attacked -- it's US companies, particularly those already doing business in China. The counter-argument is a "you reap what you sow" vis-a-vis low cost offshoring, but in a lot of cases the risk is justified by the immense opportunities of participating in a 1B consumer domestic market. Coincidentally or not, I received an email from one of my colleagues in Hong Kong this morning asking some IT security questions (as part of a customer IP audit of our greater China operations) regarding collaboration tools we use and whether they could be restricted to on-premise access and whether we could prevent content from being shared externally. Companies are taking notice, but I'd wager that almost none have deep enough pockets or internal expertise sufficient to erect reasonable security measures.
• walshemj 13y ago
  Plausible deniability if your are so overt your caught bang to rights then any intel you have is tainted and the contra inteligence guys can feed you duff information via double agents which you pay for. MI5's first motor car back in ww1 was funded by the German intelligence services when they captured a spy and feed bad information back and got the Germans to send their suborned spy money. Think Captain Renault in Casablanca :-)