Cold war in cyberspace

Recent revelations in the American media about the involvement of the Chinese military in cyber attacks against the United States have attracted much attention — not because such unfriendly acts are news, but because for the first time, accusations of Chinese misdeeds are accompanied by well-documented evidence gathered by an independent party (in this case, an American computer security company called Mandiant, which was hired by The New York Times to defend the paper against Chinese cyber attacks after it published investigative reports on the enormous wealth accumulated by the family members of the Chinese premier).

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