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   by joequant 14y ago

   At which point China kicks the US company out of China, and said company loses far, far more than any amount that is due to hacking. Iran and Syria aren't subject to this problem because the amount of business that US companies do in Iran a
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   by joequant 14y ago

   Which government? If you are a software company and you let it be known that you actively cooperate with the NSA and CIA, I doubt you'll be doing much business in China. I doubt France is going to let you in, either. Outside of a few indus
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   by joequant 14y ago

   There's also the matter of "is this worth starting a war over?" One thing about this is that Chinese military is not the same thing as Chinese intelligence. The main Chinese intelligence agency is the Ministry of State Security. Mixing up
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   by joequant 14y ago

   One problem is that multinational corporations are multinational with significant operations inside of China. I doubt that the NSA is going to be of much help in helping a US company secure its networks inside of China, and if that company
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   by joequant 14y ago

   And the particular neighborhood which the report targets happens to be the place where the main US-China cable hits the China network... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPE_%28cable_system%29 In other words, you'd 1) expect to find a lot of