. . potential national-security threat of letting countries like China control the technological supply train . .
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Since the Chinese military leadership watched the US handily dismantle the Iraqi army in the 1990-91 Gulf War, the prevailing wisdom within the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been to emphasize the role of asymmetric war if China and the United States were to engage in conflict with each other.
Chief among China's asymmetric tactics is the role of cyber-war in disrupting key channels of communication upon which America's command and control operations rely.
. . vulnerability of America's information-technology backbone that covers the country's military, as well as industrial, capacities. Chief among these concerns is the role of China as a potential threat to US interests in cyberspace.
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look folks
sky is the limit
just a teaser
a hacker could easily manipulable Stock Market, (daily 10 Billion $) currency market, commodity market and and and .. with catastrophic consequence for world economy .. markets could collapse worldwide
West runs on software
in that sense, like all western ideas, "Stuxnet" was a real stupid idea
now, with little effort, catastrophic damage can be inflicted
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West is much more vulnerable than east for cyber attack
everything, military, economy, daily life, security .. anything .. can easily be sabotaged
with very little effort .. no need of rocket science
well .. you saw a small example when Iran brought down the drone, pretty much intact
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