The recent cyberespionage attacks on Google and that company’s subsequent announcement that it would reconsider its search engine services in China gripped the world’s focus and set off a debate about China’s aggressive cybersecurity strategy. Cyberspace attacks are set to increase.
The apparent scope of the attacks took many by surprise. Some observers believe the attacks were highly sophisticated in nature, employing never-before-seen techniques. Reports concluded that the Chinese government undertook the attacks.
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Postphorism
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
UNITED NATIONS — The fact that Haiti was mired in dysfunction well before the earthquake, despite having received more than $5 billion in aid over about two decades, is fueling a contentious debate on whether a grand reconstruction plan can finally fix the country or would be doomed to repeat previous failures.
More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this country’s southern half, the capital remains a city of teetering walls, dangling electrical wires and precariously balanced heaps of jagged cinder block and wrought iron, all rattled daily by aftershocks.
A recent study found that 64% were 14 or younger when recruited, an expert on armed groups says. Many, eager to escape poverty and isolation, become prime targets for guerrilla recruiters.
The Post's editorialists are correct that "strides are being made toward fairness in sentencing" by a House Judiciary subcommittee's approval of a bill to eliminate the 5-gram and 50-gram crack cocaine triggers for federal mandatory minimum sentences.
