Time for James Bond to call it a day

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    1. Following are excerpts from the article headlined "Hagel chides China for cyberspying" by Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for The Washington Post, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...9c1c6c-ca6f-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

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    SINGAPORE — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel took China to task Saturday for alleged cyberespionage, drawing a sharp response from a Chinese general who questioned whether the United States’ growing military presence in Asia is anything more than a challenge to Beijing’s rise.

    Delivering the keynote speech at the annual security summit here known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, Hagel said the United States is “clear-eyed about the challenges in cyber” and echoed past assertions by the Obama administration that multiplying cyberattacks on U.S. government and industry portals “appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military.”

    It was the latest public charge by the administration, which has concluded that calling out China publicly could curb what U.S. officials call a brazen and sophisticated quest for American secrets stored online....

    After Hagel’s speech, a Chinese general took to the microphone. In unusually pointed remarks, Maj. Gen. Yao Yunzhu, director of China-America defense relations at the Chinese military’s Academy of Military Science, started with a wry remark.

    “Thank you for mentioning China several times,” she said to Hagel, drawing laughter and muttering. U.S. officials have long said their growing footprint in the Asia-Pacific region is not meant to offset China’s military might, Yao said, but noted that “China is not convinced.”.... (End excerpts)

    2. Storing American secrets online?! You must be kidding! Even a three-year-old child will cry and hold his candy tightly to his chest when someone jokingly tries to take it away. Hagel and company should learn from the three-year-old child how to keep their secrets properly and safely! Those who store secrets online really need a reality check. It is like leaving all your diamonds, gold bars and other valuables lying around outside your house. Nowadays, with countless hackers prowling the Internet, it's rather puzzling why we can still find people claiming to have stored their secrets online. Even uneducated grannies feel safer to keep their life savings under their pillows and mattresses instead of storing them online.

    In the past, a secret agent like the fictitious James Bond had to risk his life just to obtain one little secret that was kept under lock and key, perhaps in a heavily-guarded fortress or even under the bra or the underwear of a female agent. It's high time for Uncle Sam to return to the old but safer practice of keeping all his secrets under lock and key, perhaps in a safety deposit box in a bank vault. Instead of storing his secrets online, he can try storing them in stuffed toys or packages of frozen vegetables or some creative hiding places in the kitchen or bathroom.

    Now with people behaving strangely and irrationally like storing secrets online, who needs a James Bond anymore? If James Bond really exists today, it's time for him to call it a day. :smile:
     

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