China Is Jumping at Digital Shadows
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“Survival is an infinite capacity for suspicion,” goes the line from John Le Carre's classic Cold War-era novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And right now, in the technology realm, China is fighting hard just to stay in the game.Three brief paragraphs posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China to its website on Sunday night outlined the latest round of digital paranoia between Beijing and Washington, with Boise-based Micron Technology Inc. the most-recent victim. “Micron products have relatively serious potential network security issues,” the CAC said without elaborating. “Operators of national critical information infrastructure should stop purchasing Micron products.” We ought not to make too much of Beijing's decision to keep details of its security review under wraps; ...