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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Quotation
Good to see that China has hired Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes for public relations. (‘I know nothing! I see nothing!’) The People’s Liberation Army is liberating the world through censorship, cyber war and award-winning coal consumption.
— A New York Times reader from Verona, New Jersey, sarcastically commenting on a new report released by security firm Mandiant concluding that the Chinese military is almost certainly behind hundreds of cyberattacks on U.S. companies.