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Pentagon seeks probe of the cost of hacking

Cites theft of secrets from U.S. companies

But some are skeptical about efforts to estimate the scale of the problem.

Martin Libicki of the Rand Corp., a California-based think tank, said much theorizing about losses seems to be “predicated on a zero-sum idea of international trade and the global economy … ‘anything that you earn makes me poorer’” that economists debunked long ago.

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