Chinese hackers a phantom menace?
So says FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, writing for Cato@Liberty: I keep reading about the cyber-war we’re supposed to be fighting with China. Reading this story, I don’t see it. There are evidently a lot of Chinese hackers (not necessarily government-sponsored), and a bunch of Chinese electronic espionage (not necessarily successful). That’s a problem, not ...
So says FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, writing for Cato@Liberty:
So says FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, writing for Cato@Liberty:
I keep reading about the cyber-war we’re supposed to be fighting with China. Reading this story, I don’t see it. There are evidently a lot of Chinese hackers (not necessarily government-sponsored), and a bunch of Chinese electronic espionage (not necessarily successful). That’s a problem, not a war.
Friedman links to Wired‘s Kevin Poulson, who shreds a recent National Journal story alleging that Chinese hackers caused the 2003 blackout of the northeastern United States.
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