Eugenio Benincasa

Abstract: The People’s Republic of China’s cybersecurity industry is underpinned by a deeply embedded mindset: to defend, one must first know how to attack (未知攻，焉知防). Popularised in the 1990s by Taiwanese hacker Lin Zhenglong (“Coolfire”), this defence-through-offence philosophy has shaped generations of self-taught hackers, patriotic hacktivist groups, and eventually a new class of Capture the… Read More