A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.Photo-illustration: Jacqui VanLiew; Getty ImagesIn the summer of 2005, Tan Dailin was a 20-year-old grad student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering when he came to the attention of the People’s Liberation Army of China.Tan was part of a burgeoning hacker community known as the Honkers—teens and twentysomethings in late-’90s and early-’00s China who formed ...