Former CYBERCOM leader details security threat from China's tech expansion, calls for private-sector regulation

By Mariam Baksh / February 6, 2019 at 11:03 AM
The former No. 2 official at U.S. Cyber Command this week buttressed the cybersecurity case against the global commercial expansion of Chinese information and communication technology, and suggested a need for requirements on the private sector in defending against the threat associated with Beijing. "China is unfit to own large chunks of the globe's communication infrastructure, given its extensive surveillance, given its censorship, given the fact that it has for years been stealing intellectual property,” said retired Lt. Gen. William...

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