From CQ Researcher:

Cyber threats will “become increasingly existential,” says James Baker, former FBI general counsel and now director of national security and cybersecurity at the R Street Institute, a free market think tank in Washington. “If there’s a significant cyber event in the future caused by a malicious actor, or just an accident, the implications for all of us are going to be much more profound.”

“While it’s appropriate for the administration to focus our attention on the risk associated with Huawei, I worry about whether they’ve completely thought through the second- and third-order consequences of the steps that they’ve taken,” says James Baker, former FBI general counsel and currently director of national security and cybersecurity at the R Street Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington. He says the Trump administration’s actions may prompt China to create domestic providers for software and hardware it normally would buy from U.S. firms, which might hurt the United States in the long run.

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