China’s talk of cyber-security reform has not been followed by significant action, according to U.S. intelligence officials. “We haven’t seen any indication in the private sector that anything has changed,” said National Counterintelligence Executive William Evanina on Wednesday, as he announced a forthcoming report on economic espionage in cyberspace.
In fact, as Bloomberg Business reports, Evanina said the U.S. intelligence community doubts China could call an abrupt halt to its cyber-espionage if it wanted to, comparing such a dramatic change to “turning off a big faucet in China.”
One reason for the difficultly of China controlling its hackers is the diffuse nature of their cyber-espionage operation, which uses both regular People’s Liberation Army militarized hackers and irregular, deniable data-raiders who can be denounced as “rogues” at Beijing’s convenience. It takes time to filter instructions through that sort of network. For the full article click here
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