The US was able to use their lead in computers to design stealth aircraft based on Soviet mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev
[1] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6367/did-russia-have...
What sort of signal in the noise would tell us that it is indeed time to slow things down and stabilize around security?
Or their espionage _and_ replication skills, given the tech and human gap, are good enough to make up for it. Which, based on the domestic defense tech we are seeing from China, is not yet even close to proven.
It's not a time to be cocky. But we must continue to leverage our comparatively open processes. That was a key lesson of the cold war.
Also in this arena it strikes me that western cyber forces are fortunate indeed that their potential adversaries have a famously centralized governing style. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that we already had some hilariously complete records of that sort from our own expeditions.
You can't be serious. "Make private information public" is an absurd reaction to what is a clearly offensive operation.
side-note - completed a graduate program @ MIT
I say let them keep trying, with some security tweaks here and there as needed/justified. But redouble our connections with academia. We need to harness massive growth in the face of such a conservative opponent, not more excuses to slow things down and stabilize around security so soon.
0. https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil