Chinese hacks show that cybersecurity isn’t just academic: opinion


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 06 Mar 2019

FILE PHOTO: A computer network cable is seen above a Chinese flag in this July 12, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo

For decades, back before the Cold War, universities were fertile hunting grounds for espionage. 

Western and Soviet intelligence agencies were known to recruit spies directly from campuses at home, while grooming up-and-coming experts in target countries who might one day be in positions of knowledge or power. 

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