Jed Babbin: Obama’s empty warnings to China won’t stop hacking

Published May 30, 2013 4:00am ET



A news report earlier this week said that Chinese cyberspies had stolen the designs for many of the United States’ most advanced weapon systems. In response, the article said, the Obama administration had “…escalated its warnings to the Chinese government to stop what Washington sees as rampant cybertheft.”

Those warnings have very clearly fallen on deaf ears. According to my sources (and open-sourced materials) Chinese cyber-espionage is attempted literally thousands of times a day against virtually all US government agencies and defense contractors.

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