Posted on Police 1 website by Paul Goldenberg, Michael Gips
A top priority for state and federal legislatures should be to provide funding to replace potentially insecure drones with secure, North American- or allied-manufactured UAS.
On October 17, the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security released a “China Threat Snapshot” assessment, enumerating “recent cases of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-related espionage and acts of transnational repression in the United States.” The 10-page documents (available in full below) lists more than 55 espionage cases since 2021, more than 200 incidents of Chinese espionage against the United States since 2000, and more than 36,000 apprehensions of Chinese nationals at the southwest border in 2024, more than all the apprehensions from 2007 to 2020 combined.
Two weeks after that assessment came out, media outlets reported that Chinese hacking/spying organization Salt Typhoon had surreptitiously collected audio and text messages from President Elect Trump and Vice President Elect J.D. Vance, as well as from staffers for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. But the infiltration is much larger. According to the Washington Post, “Millions of mobile-phone users on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers could…be ongoingly vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance.”…
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