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The attack was reportedly carried out by the company's Chinese

Feb. 26, 2018 by Paul Fletcher

The attack was reportedly carried out by the company's Chinese subsidiary, the Beijing-based Chinese Information Technology Group of China Ltd. and its subsidiaries in the US, who were accused of hacking the systems.

"This is a global problem which has arisen because of the lack of transparency surrounding the China-US nexus on information security and cyber security, and the fact that the Chinese authorities have been able to hold on to almost nothing to prevent the use of these chips in the U.S. and other countries," said John J. McAfee, CEO of the Center for Digital Democracy.

The US Department of Homeland Security said it was "determined to ensure that foreign intelligence agencies have a complete understanding of the security implications of these and other surveillance practices." The department said that its "strongest warning" to those who believe they are being monitored by US authorities is to seek "additional assistance from the government of China."

McAfee said that it's especially disturbing to see how "government agencies routinely allow their spies to gain access to sensitive data, including in sensitive communications from the Chinese, and to obtain access to sensitive data that is not in the government's possession or control."It's a strange, strange, and bizarre day for the New York Times, which is now running a story about the president's call this week to put on the American flag — at least in case he doesn't want to.

The newspaper's editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, has been telling all sorts of weird stories for years about the president's reaction to this call from his wife. And this particular story, which Goldberg, like many of his colleagues at the New York Times, has written about, doesn't even make sense.

The story is a series of pieces from Goldberg about the president's bizarre decision to hold a national flag rally, and it's written by an American president who is just as surprised as anybody about his wife's reaction. (It's the president's wife who was not among those who spoke out when Goldberg first started asking her if she was concerned.)