Opinion
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The Iran Cyber Threat Is Real

The Iran cyber threat is real—and our phones are making it worse.
The Iran Cyber Threat Is Real
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Commentary
U.S. intelligence agencies are on high alert after CNN reported that Iran is actively preparing cyberattacks aimed at critical government and military infrastructure. But the real threat may already be inside the wire—not from foreign hackers at a keyboard, but from mobile phones unknowingly or deliberately carried into the nation’s most sensitive facilities. The devices we carry every day are now among our greatest national security vulnerabilities.
Terry Thompson
Terry Thompson
Author
Col. Terry Thompson (U.S. Air Force, ret.) was a war planner at the Pentagon and a wing commander at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.