<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.3499984741211px">This was new. Other countries have spied on American companies, and they have stolen from them, but this is likely the first time—occurring months before the late November attack on </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:25.3499984741211px"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Corporation" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span itemprop="name" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sony Pictures Entertainment</span></span> (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=SNE" class="" style="color:rgb(0,124,213);text-decoration:none">SNE</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.3499984741211px">—that a foreign player simply sought to destroy American corporate infrastructure on such a scale. Both hacks may represent the beginning of a geopolitically confusing, and potentially devastating, phase of digital conflict. </span><div><font face="Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:17px;line-height:25.3499984741211px"><br clear="all"></span></font><div><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/iranian-hackers-hit-sheldon-adelsons-sands-casino-in-las-vegas#r=read">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/iranian-hackers-hit-sheldon-adelsons-sands-casino-in-las-vegas#r=read</a><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jim Windle   <br>(646) 470-9657    <br>Oh, and be sure to state your name so my cyborg can tell me who is calling!<br></div>
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