The hacking has become just unbelievable, as reported here. Is the U.S. government defenseless against this relentless cyber campaign?…
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An excellent video podcast on Battlefield Cyber
Ignore the commecial at the beginning…
China Has Stolen Its Way to Military Parity
AsiaTimes has published this excerpt from Battlefield Cyber. In effect, the Chinese have stolen enough U.S. military technology from the Pentagon’s Defense Industrial Base that they are now a peer competitor at sea and in the air. The most recent incident involving their penetration of the Pentagon’s Pacific communications is just a piece of a […]…
Oh, no. Here we go again on Industrial Policy
One of the hardest things for Americans to get right when it comes to developing new technologies is long-term consistency of purpose. We allow the funding to be put on hold or we turn it into a partisan wrangle. That’s what happened with Solyndra, a solar power start-up in California and A123 Systems, an innovative […]…
Chinese Communist Party has direct access to Americans’ TikTok data
A lawsuit filed by a former ByteDance employee (ByteDance owns TikTok) alleges that a special unit of the Chinese Communist Party inside the company monitors its apps and has access to all its data. “The (party) Committee maintained supreme access to all the company data, even data stored in the United States,” the employee’s complaint […]…
