How China’s Big Hack Could Impact Relations With the U.S.
06 October 2018 |
5:45 am
Samm Sacks, Center for Strategic and International Studies senior fellow for tech policy, and Bloomberg's Jordan Robertson discuss the Bloomberg Businessweek investigation that showed Chinese hackers implanted tiny microchips on servers that made their way into U.S. data centers.
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