It will be interesting to find out who's systems were breached and what was stolen. On one hand, the loss could be relatively insignificant, or on the other, it could turn out to have been an enormous theft of IP.
Given how much of our economy is based on IP, I believe that any particularly large theft could easily be considered a form of economic warfare. Niles Collins wrote .. > I don't know if this would be considered an act of war. Considering H > Clinton's response then it has gotten the attention of Obama. I would hate > for my grand kids to study that WW3 started because Google got hacked! Jokes > aside though, the Chinese are taking hacking to a new level, this is far > beyond the Eastern Bloc/Russian hackers would hack for Crime Syndicates.
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