Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat by John P. Carlin

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

by John P. Carlin

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If thieves broke into Boeing and carried out its schematics, the response would be swift. Steal them digitally and, in Carlin and Garrett M. Graff's account, you get a slow, poorly coordinated one. North Korea, China, Iran and Russia can't match American military power, so they go after its economy and elections.

Core ideas
  • Theft as strategy: Chinese military operatives, sometimes posing as students or researchers, steal advanced technology so it can be reverse-engineered.
  • 2016 as warning: Russian interference in 2016 gets the heaviest emphasis, with a warning that the 2018 midterms faced similar threats.
  • Built for openness: Attribution and prosecution of foreign state hackers are hard on an internet designed for openness rather than security, and in his view Obama-era agency roles were unclear.
Published2018
Pages481
ISBN9781541773837
ReadJun 2025

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