The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors”

Post by jessaustin » Fri, May 29, 2020, 6:16 PM UTC

cat199 wrote: post #161

jessaustin wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...huge geopolitical bargaining chip... Ummm, I'm not sure how to break it to you, but USA is already laughingstock of world due to our comically misguided reaction to the "pandemic". Everyone expected Trump to screw up (and he hasn't disappointed), but there isn't any person or institution in USA that hasn't totally whiffed on this. CDC mandated tests that didn't work, news media remained unconvinced until late in t…

relative level of (dis)respect of any country to another doesn't mean that country won't use something to their advantage

What is "advantage" in this case? Nations with reliable treatments and vaccines might use those to improve their citizens' health? Sure that's not something we'd do in USA but it doesn't seem like a bad idea...

Post by masnao » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 9:38 AM UTC

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #202

masnao wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if the research was published published ongoing, like open source software, it would not be aproblem. the problem only exists because people want to 1) hold data hostage for money and power 2) only publish success.

> if the research was published published ongoing Are you aware that there are protocols in medical research against this? Publishing research in an ongoing basis will taint the results (placebo effects etc). There are blackout periods etc. just to make sure that the analysis is valid and not tainted. Also a lot of research has lag time. Experiments can take a lot of time. There is also a hidden assumption China is h…

you're talking about human medical trials. that's a very low percentage of research

Re: The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors”

Re: The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors”