Let he who is without sin...
The report went on to say that the number of "malicious" computer attacks against the US had rocketed in 2008, relinquishing subtlety to add "much of this activity appears to originate in China."
Apart from pointing a stern finger, however, the report did little to explain how exactly it had come to its decisive conclusion that the Chinese government was sifting through the Pentagon's knicker drawer.
It mainly just cited "conclusions" from Pentagon contractors, Northrop Grumman, which had conducted its own study saying that it seemed to them, Beijing was carrying out "a long-term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign" against America.
Then again, perhaps to elaborate on the sophisticated techniques and forensic analysis of discovering the who's and what's of cyber espionage would give the Chinese an unfair advantage in blocking US espionage, and they wouldn't want that, would they?
