One of my dreams is to see the President of the United States publicly call out China on its pervasive cyber-espionage. Probably won’t happen, and probably won’t change anything, but I’m still hoping for it. In the meantime, I guess I’ll just have to settle for this.
Picked up on this from a Lawfare blog post written by Paul Rosenzweig. Secretary of State Clinton is currently in China, and made some joint remarks with the Chinese Foreign Minister. Secretary Clinton had this to say regarding cyberattacks and IP theft:
I also raised the growing threat of cyber attacks that are occurring on an increasing basis. Both the United States and China are victims of cyber attacks. Intellectual property, commercial data, national security information is being targeted. This is an issue of increasing concern to the business community and the Government of the United States, as well as many other countries, and it is vital that we work together to curb this behavior.
Obviously she didn’t come out and accuse China directly, but the fact that she “raised the growing threat of cyber attacks” with the Chinese is encouraging.
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While we’re talking Chinese cyber-espionage, apparently Huawei has pledged to never cooperate with spying (via an AP article reproduced by The Washington Post). The company also denies that it is a security threat. You know, the same Huawei barred from an Australian broadband project and under heavy scrutiny anytime it wants to expand in the U.S. Jeffrey Carr had some thoughts on Huawei’s “cavernous cyber security credibility gap” for the Digital Dao blog.
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