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U.S. Efforts to Enhance Cybersecurity and to Counter International Theft of Trade Secrets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

1 see David P. Fidler, Economic Cyber Espionage and International Law: Controversies Involving Government Acquisition of Trade Secrets Through Cyber Technologies, ASIL Insights (Mar. 20, 2013), at http://www.asil.org/insights130320.cfm.

2 Craig Timberg & Ellen Nakashima, China Has Hacked Most Washington Institutions, Experts Say, Wash. Post, Feb. 21, 2013, at A1; David E. Sanger, In Cyberspace, New Cold War, N.Y. Times, Feb. 25, 2013, at A1.

3 Mandiant, APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units (undated), at http://intelreport.mandiant.com/?gclid=CL7TkOenz7UCFeRlOgodZRIAvQ.

4 David E. Sanger, David Barboza & Nicole Perlroth, China’s Army Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S., N.Y. Times, Feb. 19, 2013, at A1; William Wan & Ellen Nakashima, Chinese Cyberspying Hits More Than 140 Targets, Report Says, Wash. Post, Feb. 20, 2013, at A8.

5 David Barboza, China Denies Allegations of Conducting Cyberwarfare, N.Y. Times, Feb. 21, 2013, at B2.

6 Exec. Order, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Feb. 12, 2013), available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/executive-order-improving-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity.

7 Michael Daniel, Improving the Security of the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure, White House Blog (Feb. 13, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/13/improving-security-nation-s-critical-infrastructure?utm_source=related.

8 Exec. Order, supra note 6.

9 Ellen Nakashima, White House Launches Effort to Deter Theft of Trade Secrets, Wash. Post, Feb. 21, 2013, at A11.

10 U.S. Defense Security Service, Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of Trade Secrets (Feb. 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov//sites/default/files/omb/IPEC/admin_strategy_on_mitigating_the_theft_of_u.s._trade_secrets.pdf.

11 [Editor’s note: see U.S. Dep’t of Justice Press Release, Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Administration Trade Secret Strategy Rollout (Feb. 20, 2013), at http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2013/ag-speech-1302201.html.]

12 White House Press Release, Launch of the Administration’s Strategy to Mitigate Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets (Feb. 20, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/19/launch-administration-s-strategy-mitigate-theft-us-trade-secrets.