US panel warns of espionage by China - The Boston Globe - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Nov 08
  

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  • China has stepped up computer espionage attacks on the US government, defense contractors, and American businesses, a congressional advisory panel said yesterday.

    • There is a tension in the phrase "espionage attacks." While "espionage" is an accurate description of what is happening, the term "attacks" is there as a result of a "cyberwar" discourse tradition that routinely portrays computer break ins, data theft or corruption, denial of service, defacements, and more, as "attacks" or acts of "warfare." Thus, in this case, good old fashioned espionage, when carried out with/in a new technological medium, is elevated to a form of warfare in its own rite.
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  • US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • its annual report to lawmakers
  • The commission of six Democrats and six Republicans said in the unanimously approved report that China's massive military modernization and its "impressive but disturbing" space and computer warfare capabilities "suggest China is intent on expanding its sphere of control even at the expense of its Asian neighbors and the United States."

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  TransTracker on 2008-11-22
  There is a tension in the phrase "espionage attacks." While "espionage" is an accurate description of what is happening, the term "attacks" is there as a result of a "cyberwar" discourse tradition that routinely portrays computer break ins, data theft or corruption, denial of service, defacements, and more, as "attacks" or acts of "warfare." Thus, in this case, good old fashioned espionage, when carried out with/in a new technological medium, is elevated to a form of warfare in its own rite.

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