If these differing philosophical lenses don’t make for enough complexity on their own, the cybersecurity issues of the past decade have added more challenges. The US government understandably reacted strongly not only to incidents such as the hacking of the OPM but also to reports that Chinese hardware manufacturer Huawei had built routers that enabled the Chinese government to monitor communications by customers who used them.18 The shoe then was on the other foot when the Snowden disclosures included a photo of US personnel tampering with Cisco routers to achieve the same thing.19 Both
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