Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hacking America’s Future

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Hacking America’s Future | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Chinese hackers and American R&D. Is this country’s future being stolen?
...The theft in particular of American trade secrets – American R&D, the fruits of American ingenuity. We’re told it is happening on a vast scale. A scale so great it could change America’s future. Steal it.


Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery

When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.

He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings,not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely...

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