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Are China’s hacker attacks and its anti-Apple campaign both preludes to a trade war? CNN

Interesting thought via CNNMoney’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt: is China going after Apple?  Elmer-Dewitt looked at all the recent cyberexploitation news over the past few months and noted three things:

  1. The Mandiant report suggested Apple was targeted by Chinese hackers (although it doesn’t explicitly say it)
  2. The Chinese apparently began a campaign against Apple on Chinese TV after the Mandiant report was released.
  3. Targeting Apple may be part of China’s “blunt, corrupt mercantilism.”

 

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