Eric Schmidt, in New Book: China Could Contribute to Fracturing the Internet into Pieces
From the article: "Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s new book, co-authored with a former State
Department superstar named Jared Cohen, doesn’t come out until April.
But The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Gara got a hold of an advance copy and has been going through
some of its ideas about the future of the Web.
Particularly interesting are Schmidt’s comments on China, which, according to
Gara’s reading, seem to portray the country as a rising threat not just to Web
freedom but to the Internet itself.
Schmidt and Cohen write that China is the world’s “most sophisticated and
prolific” hacker, according to Gara. Their book reads, ”It’s fair to say
we’re already living in an age of state-led cyber war, even if most of us
aren’t aware of it.” But their predictions for where that might lead the
Internet, according to the Journal’s report, include the dark possibility that
it could split apart entirely." Read more
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