The West better rethink cyber security for the military. It is a mess and the million-billionaires don't care.

The problem with foreign nationals that become citizens, is their family. If they work in any form of military apparatus, the family can be threatened. It then erodes the loyalty to the USA or in his case Australia and all sorts of problems become more real than anyone ever estimated.

In the USA Constitution, the President had to be a native born citizen. I think they knew what they were doing when it comes to securing a country.

4 April 2018

By Alex Joske, Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Angus Grigg

The Defence Department (click here) is reviewing business dealings between one of its senior scientists and the Chinese government’s missile development agency amid ongoing concerns about Beijing’s effort to recruit western scientists and officials.

In a separate development, Fairfax Media can also reveal that Australia's peak scientific research agency, the CSIRO, spent tens of millions of dollars upgrading its cyber-security and information systems after a data breach linked to an employee who was a Chinese national. The man disappeared after the apparent breach in November 2013.

The Defence Department senior scientist, who has a security clearance that gives him access to classified information, was in early 2016 appointed director of a small NSW firm which specialises in non-military uses of big data analytics.

Later that year, the firm signed a partnership with a subsidiary of CASIC, the Chinese government’s largest missile manufacturer, to buy heat sensors that would gather data for use in the agricultural sector....