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Now Maybe Taiwan Will Take Cybersecurity Seriously
Whether it was a hack of TSMC or not isn’t the point.
Taiwan has been the target of Chinese cyber armies for years.
Photographer: Andrew Brookes/Getty Images
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I was at a hackers conference in Taipei a few years ago when I got talking to one of the country’s leading cybersecurity experts. I wanted to know the state of play in the ongoing cyber war between Taiwan and China.
“There’s no war,” came the response. I was flummoxed. All day, stories had been flowing about attacks from China and the ongoing risks.