Clapper ‘Salutes’ Chinese for OPM Breach
“You have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, referring to the Office of Personnel Management breach Thursday at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Symposium in Washington. If the U.S.…
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had the opportunity to breach the data the Chinese stole from OPM, the intelligence community wouldn’t hesitate for a moment, Clapper said. When asked to confirm whether the Chinese were responsible for the breach, Clapper said China was the “leading suspect.” Council on Foreign Relations Cyber Policy Senior Fellow Robert Knake wrote a blog post Friday saying that he wasn’t that concerned about the impact on U.S. human intelligence following the breach because the U.S. is aware of the breach, the CIA is “pretty good at what they do,” password resets already were weak, spearfishing is already pretty effective and blackmail is an overstated threat. The Chinese Embassy in Washington had no comment.