FBI and MI5: ‘The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology’
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MI5 Director General Ken McCallum (left) and FBI Director Christopher Wray (right). | Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images The heads of the FBI and UK domestic security service shared a platform for the first time to issue dire warnings about the threats posed by the Chinese government's espionage operations, BBC News reports. FBI Director Christopher Wray and MI5 Director General Ken McCallum were speaking at a joint event at MI5's London headquarters in front of an audience that included business CEOs and senior figures from universities.
The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology-whatever it is that makes your industry tick-and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market," the Wall Street Journal reports Wray said in the speech. The FBI director added that the benefits of keeping a piece of technology confidential may...