You had to know something interesting would come out of the quarter million diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks just, well, leaked
late on Sunday, and the New York Times has picked out a doozie for us.
As it turns out, that big brouhaha in China surrounding the hacking of
Gmail accounts was actually a state-authorized attack. Such was the
report from a Chinese informant working for the US embassy, and the
disclosure goes on to say that it was part of a "coordinated campaign
of computer sabotage," reaching a wide net of targets, including
American government machines, American private businesses, and... the
Dalai Lama. Hey, China's hardly the first country to ever engage in
state-sponsored cyber espionage (ahem, Stuxnet), but we can't say
we're not disappointed. Let's keep it classy from here on out, alright
guys?
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