We should kill Chinese kill switches

A huge number of Chinese electronics products can be remotely accessed, repurposed, controlled and shut down. Malice or incompetence? It doesn’t matter.

The best thing about government-backed cyber attacks is deniability.

The countries that are really good at it (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and, of course, the United States) find hacking irresistible.

Cyber attacks let nations pursue geopolitical goals quietly, under the metaphorical radar. Enemies can wage a new kind of “lukewarm war,” somewhere …