Secrets, whether they are the National Security kind, or the hidden relationships between married couples, are made to be kept. Expose them, and there will be consequences, some grave as the ability of spies to do their jobs; some, the justice of a wronged spouse. Applied to an individual, it is difficult to say which is more severe. Our inability to control our secrets, is a curious mix of policy, law and technology that is out of balance. Policies and law will never keep pace with technology, but there has been little effort to correct fundamental issues that pertain to the making and...

China's information war against the United States is technically clever, broadly applied and successful. The US intelligence community has publicly stated this is a kind of war we do not know how to fight. China's political systems are more easily adapted to this form of warfare, as their recent land seizures in the South China Sea demonstrate.