Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire

I remember a story about space combat where just transmitting a firing solution would disable the enemy ship. Can't remember the title or author for the life of me.

In this particular instance, I think all evidence would suggest that "western" security companies have been extremely successful in developing exploits for iOS, Android, and plenty of other platforms. So it would make a lot of sense that China would develop additional tools and talents outside of gov orgs and gov owned companies.

Genuine question, what does the US have to gain from making up this narrative? That's not always a useful question - obviously there are instances where something is true & someone also stands to gain. But in this case, cyber is the threat. If the NSA hacks you, does it really matter if they bought the exploit instead of developing it themselves?

You might actually be interested in this but last week the ex chief of operations for the CIA who was involved in both the Chile and Iran Contra fiascos sat down for a 3 hour chat about it amongst other topics in a fair amount of detail.

If for no other reason than to just understand how those things came to be and what the chain of command actually looks like in real life covert action programs and how things go wrong because I think you and maybe a lot of people here who don’t have any real background on these things outside of what they heard on a Joe Rogan podcast for example are missing some important pieces of the puzzle which leads to ridiculous comments like the OP made.

https://www.youtube.com/live/rCIjS6UfNuE