The online theft of U.S. intellectual property (IP) by other nation states continues to be a big problem. A panel of experts agreed this week at the RSA conference in a session titled, Responses to state-sponsored economic espionage The panel agreed that the instinctive response of active defense more commonly known as hacking back is not a good one. Hacking back doesnt get your IP back, said Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department.”]
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