The obvious entry would be to discuss the recent news about China and their hacking activities, but I haven’t decided what I think about that yet.  On one hand, I’m surprised that people are so surprised about it.  On the other, I think it takes a lot of balls for a country to sponsor hacking activities (and there is no convincing me the government wasn’t aware).  Bt then on the other hand, is this really that different from the espionage activities that were conducted between us and the Soviet Union during he Cold War.  The targets are different, but the goals are similar.  Instead of spying on the military to better defend the home country, China is hacking to better develop the home country.  This doesn’t excuse the activity, but this thought process is at the core of why it doesn’t surprise me that it happened.  I guess what does surprise me about all this is that it took ten years for it to come out.  How is this news going to affect businesses?  Well, I assume there will be many internal investigations to determine exactly who was hacked and what data was compromised.  How is this going to affect individual people?  I don’t know that it will alter the behavior of too many people.  Last night Jimmy Fallon had a joke bout the China hacking situation by announcing that he still isn’t going to change his email password from “jimmy.”  I think this is probably going to be the case for most people -they aren’t going to give it any thought other than “Oh, China hacked businesses.”  Hopefully I’m wrong.