Regime Watch: Beijing

The first paragraph of National Journal magazine’s recent article on the growing threat posed by Chinese computer hackers:

Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S. government officials and computer-security experts.

Sounds like a good plot line for a spy thriller.  Hopefully someone, somewhere in our vast federal government, is working on this.