Cyber Terrorism Affects with Economic Espionage and Intellectual Property
The Chinese government is known for engaging in economic
espionage in cyberspace. The Chinese are the world’s most active and persistent
practitioners of cyber espionage today. Evidence of China’s economically disturbing
theft of registered technologies as well as other intellectual property from the
United States and other countries. Cyber terrorists from any nation have the
ability to cripple our national infrastructures. Over the past few years, our
government has revealed that the threat of economic cyber espionage appears even
more of a threat than previously discovered. The cyber espionage and theft
among companies’ intellectual work has increased in the U.S. economy and globally
over the past decade. Evidence shows us that China plans to help build its own economy
by the theft of intellectual property. That is easier than creating innovation and
investment standards within its research and development fields (Top two fields
within US economy). The Chinese steal innovations and intellectual property due
to it being less costly and more effective then attaining them by legal courses
of action. The Chinese turn the stolen ideas straight into production. This
makes them able to create products much quicker and cheaper than other
countries’ companies. Cyberspace is a perfect platform for stealing intellectual
resources. Hackers can easily breach systems that transfer large amounts of
data, while corporations and governments have a very hard time identifying
specific criminals. The cyber threat is
very real and detrimental to our nation.
Do you think the government should
step in with more laws to protect intellectual property, or should that be left
up to the individual companies?
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