US Intelligence Chief Skeptical Of Cyber Deal With China

The top US intelligence official said he was skeptical that a new U.S.-China cyber agreement would slow a growing torrent of cyber attacks on USA computer networks, adding that his approach will be to “trust but verify”. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee’s chair, if he was in fact optimistic the warranty would definitely generate a long time outcomes, Clapper made a grand wait, leaned directly into the mic or a very seriously answered, “No”.

[Obama and Jinping] agreed not to conduct or knowingly support cyber theft of trade secrets or competitive business information.

The United States had been considering sanctions against China if it did not take steps to rain in cyber economic espionage.

“I think there is a question about the extent to which the [Chinese] government actually orchestrates all of it or not”, he said. Chinese forces have since rolled out the J-31 fighter, which looks almost identical to the Lockheed-designed F-35 joint strike fighter, as well as a radar system that appears to be based on Lockheed’s offering for the US Air Force’s Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program.

Attacks by countries such as Russian Federation, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as non-state actors, would increase and likely grow more sophisticated in coming years, expanding to include manipulation of data, he said.

The deal is meant to stop state-sponsored cyber attacks on businesses and does not cover all hacks. Establishing a credible deterrent requires agreement on norms of cyber behavior by the worldwide community, he said.

Shortly after the government confirmed the two massive cyberattacks on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management earlier this year, which ultimately compromised over 21 million Social Security numbers, 19.7 million forms with data and more than 5 million fingerprint records, Rogers stated more high-profile attacks were on the horizon.

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work told the committee that the US response would be “vigorous” if another incident on the scale of the OPM breach was firmly linked to China.

“Neither [President] Xi [Jinping] himself nor any other Chinese official said what the US said”, Goldsmith wrote on his blog, Lawfare. “So this isn’t a treaty or anything like that – it’s a confidence-building measure for us to find out if China is going to act responsibly”.