Speaking of rearranging the deck chairs, I presume you’ve heard about the 30,000, that’s 30,000 organizations whose email systems running Microsoft’s Exchange Server, have been compromised by Chinese hackers, apparently supported by the Chinese government.
What’s the appropriate response?
- Nothing. What is there we can do?
- Every single company and every single individual whose information was compromised should sue Microsoft in the largest class action suit the world has ever known. Maybe the company will survive, maybe it won’t.
- Microsoft should be punished by the government for something-or-other. Show me the company and I’ll show you the crime.
- We should make it as difficult as we possibly can for China to access the Internet.
- We should use hackers of our own to take as many Chinese systems down as we can.
- We should treat it as an act of war.
I have no idea what the U. S. should do. Maybe all of them.
F. Would be appropriate, but they have us by the nuts.
Can we remedy that in time ? Or do we need to deflect and apologize to buy time?
Looks to me like we do.
As a nation, we’re too weak to respond to this at this time.
Demand that a large Chinese bank become a billion dollar, sole limited partner in another Hunter Biden PE fund. Then the fund can buy US military related manufacturers and their technology.
That’ll show’m.
That’s old territory.
There was absolutely nothing illegal in that arrangement, and besides,
Joe Biden loves his son.
Make sure that all of our future presidents, like our most recent one, is able (along with his family) to have a lot of their name brand products made there. Make sure that our most wealthy can send our businesses there, and that they then dont have to pay taxes on what they earn over there.
As a practical matter our responses will be muted because our most influential and wealthiest people have all been making from their dealings with China. It just doesnt pass down that much to the rest of us except in the form of a bit lower prices. That said, we can do a combination of the above. If Microsoft truly was negligent, which wouldnt surprise me, then a fine of some sorts should provide them incentives to do better. Making it harder for them to use the internet has some appeal but I have no idea if it is really possible or practical.
Making ourselves less dependent upon China is probably our best overall approach since then we can more fully respond. I think that mostly means addressing our own internal policies but I suspect that would hurt the wealthy too much so we will keep on ineffectually trying to change China.
Steve