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To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 2: Then They Came for Us
Microsoft and Yahoo continue to chip away ever so slightly at Google's huge search market dominance. And, of course, Baidu might really be the only game in town in China if Google really does eventually pull out.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 2: Then They Came for Us
With Google, it was a simpler case that there were dissidents using Gmail, activists, Tibetan activists and the like, and they wanted to get access to their email inboxes, potentially identify people in China that they could target. So a very dire situation, obviously, for those individuals, but not clear that there was sort of a broader national security or economic security issue.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 2: Then They Came for Us
But as we started looking at, even within Aurora, the victimology of that group, Yes, there were defense contractors and clear national security use case there, but there were also straightforward technology companies. There were manufacturing companies that were part of that victimology.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 2: Then They Came for Us
And it was clear that there were no dissidents to target in those companies, that there was no state secrets, that it was just straightforward IP theft.