WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section issued the following press release:

A year ago, I announced the launch of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force. In partnership with the Commerce Department, we at the Department of Justice set out to achieve a major national security priority: to strike back against adversaries trying to steal our most powerful technology and use it against us.

You - our nation's top technology experts and Strike Force members - are gathered in Phoenix today. You are prosecutors, agents, and analysts from our National Security Division, the Commerce Department, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security's HSI, the Department of Defense, and designated...