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228 127-page Standard Form 86: David Larter and Andrew Tilghman, “Mili- tary Clearance OPM Data Breach ‘Absolute Calamity,’” Navy Times, June 18, 2015.
229 Under Putin: Nicole Perlroth, “Online Security Experts Link More Breaches to Russian Government,” New York Times, Oct. 28, 2014.
229 “It is next to impossible”: Schneier quoted in Jenkins, “Anti-hero of Silk Road.”
230 The Silk Road founder: Jenkins, “Anti-hero of Silk Road.” Also, former Justice Department official who requested anonymity, interview with author.
230 “better cyber security”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 291.
cHAPTER 22 The Chinese Puzzle
231 “The first [false assumption]”: Snowden video in Hong Kong.
231 “China its first credible”: 2014 Annual Report to Congress by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, quoted in David Tweed, “China Takes Nuclear Weapons Undersea Away from Prying Eyes,” Bloomberg Busi- ness, Dec. 8, 2014.
232 “results of decades”: Select Committee, U.S. Congress, Report, 1999, http:// www-.house.gov/coxreport/chapfs/overhtml.
233 avast enterprise in China: Nir Kshetri, The Rapidly Transforming Chinese High- Technology Industry and Market (London: Chandos, 2008), 92.
233 By 2007, Paul Strassmann: “China Has .75M ‘Zombie Computers’ in U.S.,” UPI, Sept. 17, 2007.
234 cyber attack had harvested: David E. Sanger and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Hackers May Have Obtained Names,” New York Times, June 11, 2015.
234 “Those records are”: Baker, “Michael Hayden Says U.S. Is Easy Prey for Hackers.”
235 any attempt to “monopolize”: Patrick Goodenough, “Chinese President in Veiled Warning to the US: Don’t Try to ‘Monopolize Regional Affairs,/” CNS News, May 22, 2014.
236 Chinese intelligence maintains: Former U.S. intelligence officer stationed in Hong Kong who requested anonymity, interview with author.
236 “hostile territory”: Drumheller, interview with author.
CHAPTER 23 A Single Point of Failure
238 “the single point of failure”: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’”
239 “Snowden thinks he is smart”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 285.
239 “The purpose of my [Hong Kong]”: Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.”
240 “This guy”: Ibid.
240-241 “It was a nervous period”: Ibid.
242 “I’m not going to”: Dave Boyer, “Obama on Snowden: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Scrambling Jets to Get a 29-Year-Old Hacker’” Washington Times, June 27, 2013.
243 “huge strategic setback”: Harper, Kerbaj, and Shipman, “British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese.”
243 Adding insult to injury: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.”
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