Hackers, Inc.

According to John Murrell:

According to sources who talked to the New York Times, security experts investigating the sophisticated hacking of U.S. corporations that Google exposed in January have traced the attacks past a group of servers in Taiwan back to computers at two Chinese institutions of higher learning: Lanxiang Vocational School, which has ties to China's military, and Jiaotong.

That's fine and dandy, except a team of geeks from Jiaotong University recently won a contest sponsored by IBM when they solved a set of complex computing problems.

So a US corporation is unwittingly enabling a group of geeks to hack into another US corporation's network. Sure, there's a loose connection, as the perps haven't been identified yet, but the scenario is dripping with irony.