Lawmakers wonder: why don't we hack back against China?

The intrusion of Chinese-backed hackers into telecommunications systems in the U.S. and around the world drew questions in a Wednesday Senate hearing about whether American cyber warriors should be further authorized to digitally retaliate against their adversaries in the East.“On cyber, we are so much on defense,” Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, told Nextgov/FCW. Sullivan said that in classified briefings about the hacking collective dubbed Salt Typhoon, “it’s very bip