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Originally Posted by Vespers War
The Chinese and Russian hacking corps are certainly more visible. The open question is whether that means they're more developed or less skillful.
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I hadn't really thought about it like that. I suppose both propositions could be true at the same time. Operation Solar Winds was, by all accounts, very successful at harvesting a wealth of high level intel from numerous US gov't agencies, but it was ultimately detected (mostly by chance). A recent 60 Minutes report, however, claimed that even though the virus had been identified, it might not be possible to eliminate it completely. It will continue to lurk in US data systems, potentially providing our rivals with fresh intel and/or disrupt our IT capabilities.
On the other hand, one rarely sees reports of successful US hacks of rival nations*. Does that mean we're not doing it, or are we so good at it that no one's found out yet?
*The only one I can recall that the US might have had some hand in was the Stuxnet virus that disrupted the Iranian nuclear program several years back, but most reports credit the Israelis with developing and deploying it.