Jeffrey Carr: Two recent stories of significant cyber attacks come close to blaming the Chinese for the intrusions but stop short.
In a highly successful cyber intrusion, hackers compromised numerous systems associated with the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Asian Development Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In a second incident, sensationally reported by the Wall Street Journal, online intruders had installed malicious software on computers associated with the U.S. electrical grid. In both cases, the most likely suspect is the Chinese government. Yet, in each case, researchers and sources stopped short of blaming the Chinese.