Cyber attacks take aim at the heart of the American empire

[KiwiCoromandel]

Al-Qaeda demonstrated on September 11, 2001, how a handful of scruffy extremists could use asymmetrical warfare to damage key US assets. Now imagine that the asymmetrical warfare against the US is being waged not by a few fanatics but by one of the world's most powerful nation states.

This is why China's cyber attacks are so serious.

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source: SMH.com.au/Peter Hartcher

image: Fair Use/Simon Letch/Supplied: CYBER ATTACKS: "Governments have long used their spy agencies to steal industrial secrets from other countries"...."The odds of the 25 biggest companies in California not being fully compromised by the Chinese is near zero. That is true of companies across the country."