Government Suggests Caution for Professionals Visiting China
As one of the central hubs for cyber attacks launched against the United States, Chinese attempts at cyber espionage against U.S. industry is of increasing concern. Government officials have suggested a number of somewhat strange protocols in an effort to defeat Chinese cyber-attack efforts.
Some of the suggestions include weighing a computer brought on business trips to China before and after to determine if any new electronics were installed on the computer. Other suggestions include buying new equipment such as laptops and cellphones once there and then discarding them upon leaving China.
The Chinese were recently implicated in the GhostNet investigations. A number of ethnic Chinese have also been convicted of spying on defense companies in recent years in an effort to steal advanced technology.
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