'Homeland Security could inspect what enters the United States in cyberspace'

From the Op-ed: "Should hackers uncover classified information and hand it over to the Chinese, writes Clarke, America’s “competitive edge” against other nations will be jeopardized."<p>An alternative to legislation might be to spend money and effort on a programme teaching American firms how to implement modern security. But this kind of practical approach fails to open the channels required to snoop on the general public.

Great Firewall of America.

There are several rewrites of this article. Might be best just to let Clarke make his argument in his own words instead of reading a re-hash.<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-our-secrets.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-o...</a>

That's not that bad of an idea, from the perspective of the rest of the world... At least the US would stop fucking around with the global network!<p>And, foreign costumers (e.g. from the EU) could enjoy better privacy protections if sites like Facebook become inaccessible.

How do you inspect encrypted data?