The Part Of FBI Directors 60 Minutes Interview You Missed. Guess Who Is Hacking Private U.S. Cyberspace Overlooked in Sundays 60 Minutes segment on FBI director James Comey by Scott Pelley, was the chunk that produced this quote: Given the nature of Chinese relations at this time with the rest of the world, such a statement should not be any great shock. But what made Mr. Comeys words stunning is not so much that the Chinese are hacking, but where. Scott Pelley: What countries are attacking the United States as we sit here in cyberspace? James Comey: Well, I dont want to give you a complete list. But the top of the list is the Chinese. As we have demonstrated with the charges we brought earlier this year against five members of the Peoples Liberation Army. They are extremely aggressive and widespread in their efforts to break into American systems to steal information that would benefit their industry. Scott Pelley: What are they trying to get? James Comey: Information thats useful to them so they dont have to invent. They can copy or steal to learn about how a company might approach negotiations with a Chinese company, all manner of things. As a member of my household puts it: clever these Chinese. Forget intellectual property or reverse engineering inventions, just do it the REALLY old fashioned way and steal what you want, copying technology rather than taking on the challenge of replicated and improving on it. Never mind that someone else did all the work in the beginning. Respecting other peoples work and methods in creation is just so western. Rest assured, though, my fellow Americans, like everything else Chinese, they seem to do it on the cheap and not all that well: Scott Pelley: The Chinese are that good? James Comey: Actually, not that good. I liken them a bit to a drunk burglar. Theyre kicking in the front door, knocking over the vase, while theyre walking out with your television set. Theyre just prolific. Their strategy seems to be: Well just be everywhere all the time. And theres no way they can stop us. Swell. Given the Obama Administrations penchant for pursuing domestic issues solely on the basis of how it can further the race-bait cause and spread the infiltration from illegal immigrants and Islam, stopping or even giving lip service to objecting to the wholesale theft of American intellectual property is just so beneath them. Its a wonder then, that the FBI director is telling the tale. Mr. Comey did issue the standard warning about cybercrimes in the interview: Scott Pelley: Do people understand, in your estimation, the dangers posed by cybercrime and cyber espionage? James Comey: I dont think so. I think theres something about sitting in front of your own computer working on your own banking, your own health care, your own social life that makes it hard to understand the danger. I mean, the Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. Youd walk quickly. Youd know where you were going. You would look for light. Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments theyre opening, what sites theyre visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys. Scott Pelley: So tell folks at home what they need to know. James Comey: When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is. Thank you, Mr. Comey, now, what do you think about the NSA reading our email? For the video of Scott Pelleys interview with FBI Director James Comey, visit the 60 Minutes website. 