Cybersecurity entrepreneur Joshua Steinman comments on foreign capital risks and national security implications of Chinese corporate integration.
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Steinman: 100 foreign sabotage teams are actively operating on US soil
“No, there's absolutely foreign, foreign sabotage teams operating on U S soil. A hundred percent. My actual number is somewhere around a hundred teams. My guess is that and the question is like, you could break that down into, you know, what types anyway.”
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Steinman: CCP intelligence officials likely access DJI's US topography data
“Like if you don't think that senior CCP Intel officials have the ability to just walk into DJI headquarters and be like, give me everything you know about the topography of the United States. Like, you're smoking crack. They probably have access to it right no…”
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Steinman: ByteDance's prize is algorithm control to influence US youth
“Yeah, they absolutely want to retain control of the algorithm because that's like the prize is the ability to like inject ideas into the youth of the United States or elsewhere.”
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Steinman: Twitter buyout documents revealed foreign intelligence operated inside the company
“I mean, you can read the papers that came out of like the Twitter buyout, you know, transition to X, and they basically are like, yeah, we had foreign intel services, foreign governments, like operating inside
You know, ex formerly known as Twitter.”
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Steinman: Chinese robotics firms are replicating DJI's US market takeover playbook
“They are absolutely taking that playbook and trying to replicate it as broadly as possible.”
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Steinman: US should guarantee demand for American chips over subsidizing supply
“Yeah, I love it. I love it. I think, you know, right now I've heard a lot of strange things about how chips act has played out. I haven't followed it as closely as if I was You know, some analysts covering the stuff for the banks, but I mean, it was one of the…”