Richard Weitz
The breathtaking scope of China’s Salt Typhoon telecommunications hack underscores that the United States is engaged in a geo-tech war with Beijing.
This incident was one of the most devastating telecom breaches in US history: Chinese hackers penetrated critical US national security networks, vacuuming up sensitive data from millions of users and accessing wiretap systems that potentially compromised investigations.
This “all-out assault on US communications systems” has exposed fundamental vulnerabilities in US digital infrastructure, highlighting how gaps in our secure infrastructure and technology have left us more open to foreign threats.
US computer and telecom networks will be a prime battlefield in any future war with China. In a sense, that conflict has already arrived.
The Core Tech Sector: Critical Battleground
Salt Typhoon is part of a broader pattern of China’s activity directed at critical infrastructure, with a slew of cyberattacks apparently enabled by China-based TP-Link.
TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon and widely used, including by federal national security agencies. The Defense, Justice, and Commerce Departments have opened probes into the company following calls to ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US.
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