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Is China behind the PRISM leak?
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Re. (2): The US could bolster its case by pointing to specific examples of products or technologies produced by Chinese companies which appear to have benefitted from IP stolen through hacking. This is something that the government hasn't done, as far as I can tell (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Presumably Chinese industrial espionage hackers would want to do more with their stolen schematics than let them sit untouched on a server somewhere.
Presumably Chinese industrial espionage hackers would want to do more with their stolen schematics than let them sit untouched on a server somewhere.
Does it matter?
That's purely speculative.
(1) We have no proof that the NSA is not also involved in IP theft, because our surveillance programs have no transparency and no third-party oversight. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(2) Perhaps there is no IP theft, only accusations of such. Or perhaps the IP theft by China are simply isolated incidents instead of some common phenomenon. Maybe the US has been hacking these American companies via Chinese IP addresses so that they can (a) hide what they are doing; (b) point the finger at China; (c) gain public support for "militarization" of the Internet, etc.
If we now look as bad as China does, that is our own fault. We should have taken the moral high ground and abstained from lowering ourselves to blanket surveillance of all our citizens.
The egg on our face is of our own doing.