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China's Unrestricted Warfare, Part 3

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Technology

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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China's Unrestricted Warfare, Part 3



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0:00.0

Hi and welcome back to malicious life I'm Ran Levy. This episode is the final episode of our mini-series on China's unrestricted warfare.

0:20.6

We had to interrupt the series due to the RSA episodes in the collaboration with Wired magazine.

0:27.0

So here's a quick refresher.

0:29.4

In part one, I introduced you to two Chinese military officers who redefined the role of cyber

0:36.3

attacks and espionage in modern warfare.

0:40.3

Their position which influenced military thinking both in China and the U.S. is that future

0:46.3

wars will be decided not only by armed forces, but by a combination of all possible means, both military and non-military, lethal and non-lethal.

0:59.1

In part two, we described the Chinese espionage campaign against Nortel networks,

1:05.0

one of the world's largest telecommunications technology companies back in the early 2000s

1:11.0

and how Nortel's top management repeatedly ignored warnings and

1:16.0

actual malicious activity uncovered in the company's internal network. Network.

1:36.7

In 2004, when Brian Shields first notified Nortel Network's leadership about a major cyber incident, it's not that he was outright turned aside. They didn't laugh him out of the room like cartoon villains.

1:41.0

Rather, according to him and others involved, the people in charge just didn't give it much

1:47.4

thought.

1:48.6

They were distracted with other matters they believed were more important.

1:53.2

For example, they were right in the middle of firing their CEO, Frank Dunn,

1:58.3

for some shady accounting practices. They did so just four days after Brian and his team discovered the breach so soon that

2:07.7

done himself didn't even hear that he was hacked. But even those who weren't fired didn't hear much about it.

2:16.4

Nortel board members later told Bloomberg that they couldn't recall the news ever having come up in any of their weekly meetings.

2:25.2

They were simply too busy with onboarding the new CEO.

2:29.4

The man they brought in was Bill Owens, a decorated former Admiral with the U.S. Navy and

2:36.3

former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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