Why Business Methods Are as Important as IP to China

Courtesy of China Defense Blog, I just read a fascinating (if you like aircraft) report on China's capability to natively produce jet engines produced by China SignPost titled Jet Engine Development in China: Indigenous high-performance turbofans are a final step toward fully independent fighter production (pdf).It's common to see open source reports describing how the APT seeks intellectual property (IP), which many people read as plans, designs,...

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With "Cyber" Attacks, Effects Matter More Than Means

I enjoyed reading Stuxnet Poses Interesting International Cyber Law Issues by Rick Aldrich in IAnewsletter Vol 14 No 2 (pdf). I've known the author since my days in the USAF and he's very clued-in as a CS grad from USAFA and a lawyer who worked for AFOSI. I'd like to share a few excerpts. Please try to avoid fixation on Stuxnet if that topic bothers you. Stuxnet is not the core of Alrich's argument.Article 51 of the United Nations (UN) charter...

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THEY DID IT

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Security Conference Recommendations

After my post Bejtlich Teaching at USENIX Security in San Francisco 8-9 Aug a reader asked the following:Richard,I was curious if you could suggest other security conferences that either you have attended or have heard are better than average? It seems as though everyone and their brother sponsor some sort of security conference and it is difficult to tell how educational they will be just by reading the website. Perhaps you could provide some insight...

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China's View Is More Important Than Yours

In my post Review of Dragon Bytes Posted I wrote the following to summarize analysis of Chinese thoughts on cyberwar, as translated from original Chinese publications:The Chinese military sees Western culture, particularly American culture, as an assault on China, saying "the West uses a system of values (democracy, freedom, human rights, etc.) in a long-term attack on socialist countries... Marxist theory opposes peaceful evolution, which... is...

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