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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 04:48 AM EDT |
The annual losses are likely to be comparable to the current annual
level of U.S. exports to Asia—over $300 billion. The exact figure is
unknowable, but private and governmental studies tend to understate the
impacts due to inadequacies in data or scope. The members of
the Commission
agree with the assessment by the Commander of the United States Cyber Command
and Director of the National Security Agency,
General Keith Alexander, that the
ongoing theft of IP is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.”
[p.2, emphasis added]
Translation, We don't know how big it
is, but if we fire at random we must eventually hit
something
Perhaps more importantly, vulnerability- mitigation
measures have proved largely ineffective in defending against targeted hackers,
who are hired specifically to pursue American corporations’ intellectual
property.
Translation, Our systems and networks are useless to
withstand attacks, but we buy them from a Big American Corporation, what else
can we do?
The Report frequently observes "that Chinese-origin IP theft
is disproportionately large in size and impact" without observing that the
Chinese
market for software, music and movies is driven to pirate copies
because of outside suppliers' inability or unwillingness to timely supply
Chinese
versions. I have purchased pirate copies on dvd of recent release
movies because they appear on the market, professionally dubbed, with subtitles,
and playable in region 0 a week after initial release in their home market, and
a year before the scheduled studio release of Chinese versions.
The IP
Commission Report PDF, 1.7MB, 84pp
United States Trade Representative - 2013 Special 301
Report
PDF, 590kB, 59pp
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Authored by: jonathon on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 12:14 PM EDT |
This is simply one more reason why the system one uses for real
work/entertainment is not connected to any networks.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: digger53 on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 12:46 PM EDT |
Seems they want to install rootkits on all computers. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 05:33 AM EDT |
But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as
particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to
punish people believed to be copying illegally.
The report proposes
that software would be loaded on computers that would somehow figure out if you
were a pirate, and if you were, it would lock your computer up and take all your
files hostage...
Rumours have it that the original virus was such
an attempt - it was a deliberate anti-copyright infringement program that I
presume was meant to cause "deserved" havoc with the copyright infringing bod;
only it went slightly wrong and has been seized upon by others.
How long
after the "legal" virus is written will others take it for their own nefarious
uses?
What's going to happen to all the false positives that may result? Is
there going to be fines for the authors (/commissioners) of the software if they
hijack a totally innocent user's machine? (At least compensation for the
inconvenience - doubled or tripled to ensure proper malware is written?) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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