This is the just the newest gambit in a very old game. I'd really be interested in knowing how much the USA is hacking and probing Chinese institutions. Because we obviously are.

The silence of the Chinese on this issue tells me we are hitting them and leaving little evidence, or we are hitting them and the government refuses to acknowledge their inability to stop us.

Shhhhh. Leave the Chinese alone. We need their business.

Of course the Chinese Army isn't doing the hacking. They contract that stuff out, like everyone else.

Of course they deny it.

The connection logs show it was them.

As does the monitoring software we installed in the chipsets of all their printers.

Jesus, was the block quote manually retyped? The NYT is by no means immune to copy edit fails, but it's hard to believe something that thoroughly riddled with obvious typos and word and phrase omissions would have ever gone live.

(Needless to say, the NYT article text as currently posted doesn't match the quote in the Slog post.)