by thenewgreen

WHEN it comes to Chinese hacking, Americans cannot say they were not warned. In January James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told a technology conference in New York that “China has been robbing our industrial base blind, largely with vulnerabilities that are easy to guard against or to simply fix.” They are, he said, “cleaning us out, because we know we’re supposed to do those simple things, and yet we don’t do them.”