{"id":20518,"date":"2013-06-01T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2013-06-01T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:28:14","slug":"qotd-internet-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/qotd-internet-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Internet espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new report says that the Chinese are hacking American computer networks at an alarming rate. This is hardly news. I&#8217;ve been including the phrase &#8220;\u65e9\u5b89\uff0c\u6211\u62b1\u6b49\u6709\u6c92\u6709\u5728\u9019\u5c01\u96fb\u5b50\u90f5\u4ef6\u4e2d\u7684\u5546\u696d\u79d8\u5bc6\u6216\u52a0\u62ff\u5927\u8272\u60c5\u3002\u8acb\u505c\u6b62\u6bba\u5bb3\u9177\u52d5\u7269\u5544\u6728\u9ce5\u91ab\u5b78\u3002\u525b\u525b\u8cb7\u4e86\u4e00\u4e9b\u5049\u54e5\u4e86&#8221; at the bottom of every e-mail for months (I put it just above where it says &#8220;Hello Mr. Holder!&#8221;). It means, according to Google translate: &#8220;Good Morning, I&#8217;m sorry there&#8217;s no trade secrets or Canadian porn in this e-mail. Please stop killing cool animals for pecker medicine. Just buy some Viagra already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> new is the scope of the problem the report lays out. This is a thorny issue and I think the U.S. needs to be much, much more aggressive in combating it. Why it&#8217;s not a bigger issue for the WTO, for instance, is baffling to me. They are stealing our stuff, which strikes me as a bigger deal than taxing it at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining to the Chinese leadership that they shouldn&#8217;t be doing this because it&#8217;s wrong is like explaining to a dog licking its nethers that what he&#8217;s doing is bad manners: To the extent they understand at all, they couldn&#8217;t care less. They respect power. They understand when you put a price on bad behavior. So we need to put a price on Chinese hacking. It&#8217;s really that simple. The hard thing to figure out is <em>how<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, &#8220;Chiiiiiicoms in (Cyber) Spaaaaaaaaaaaace!&#8221;, <em>The Goldberg File<\/em>, 2013-05-31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report says that the Chinese are hacking American computer networks at an alarming rate. This is hardly news. I&#8217;ve been including the phrase &#8220;\u65e9\u5b89\uff0c\u6211\u62b1\u6b49\u6709\u6c92\u6709\u5728\u9019\u5c01\u96fb\u5b50\u90f5\u4ef6\u4e2d\u7684\u5546\u696d\u79d8\u5bc6\u6216\u52a0\u62ff\u5927\u8272\u60c5\u3002\u8acb\u505c\u6b62\u6bba\u5bb3\u9177\u52d5\u7269\u5544\u6728\u9ce5\u91ab\u5b78\u3002\u525b\u525b\u8cb7\u4e86\u4e00\u4e9b\u5049\u54e5\u4e86&#8221; at the bottom of every e-mail for months (I put it just above where it says &#8220;Hello Mr. Holder!&#8221;). It means, according to Google translate: &#8220;Good Morning, I&#8217;m sorry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,57,41,15],"tags":[476,129,241,58],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-humour","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-espionage","tag-hack","tag-intellectualproperty","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5kW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20520,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions\/20520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}