Unnamed Intelligence Analyst

In the US intelligence community, you have to be an employee of the government to be authorized to do these operations to effectively break the law, right? Because we have effectively the CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that prohibits everyone from hacking. with the exceptions of law enforcement intelligence community. But to use those exceptions, you have to be a member.

On the Chinese side, they were just saying, hey, we have these requirements, company X, Y and Z, go get them for us. And then what was happening that was really interesting is that a lot of these companies decided to start moonlighting.

If the Chinese Communist Party comes to you and tells you to do something, even if it's not in your business interest to do it, you have to do it because then they have numerous levers of coercion that they can use to effectively put you out of business.

Thank you. Thank you.