Robert Morgus is a senior policy analyst with New America's cybersecurity initiative and international security program. Justin Sherman is an intern with New America's cybersecurity initiative, researching Internet governance.
To understand any potential dangers presented by the Chinese company, we need to understand the difference between vulnerabilities, backdoors, and bugdoors.
If liberal-democratic countries don't do more to challenge trends toward authoritarian Web practices, the reigning view of the Internet may soon become far more restrictive.