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U.S. Congressmen Accuse China of Hacking Their Computers.
Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf said from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, "in August 2006, four of the computers in my personal office were compromised by an outside source. This source first hacked into the computer of my foreign policy and human rights staff person, then the computers of my chief of staff, my legislative director, and my judiciary staff person. On these computers was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists around the world." So far, no evidence has been presented. Let's predict if this will happen in the near future. We will close this prediction next Saturday (June 21, 2008).
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2. Is there evidence to be found?
3. Would it be in the best political interest to reveal that evidence?
One of the things that I learnt in the Chem. lab is that when you stack up % yields on top of each other, the overall chance of success becomes very low, very quickly.
More likely the official involved will just keep doing what he's doing - accuse without offering proof. After all proof is just a pesky thing that gets in the way of a good argument.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/07/ch...
Would someone in the US have evidence of the hacking activities? Probably. But China would probably have some as well. These, in my opinion, are things that would never make it to the public.