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Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

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Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#81

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You could troll them.

Which would put you in the position of being a rank amateur playing against a top pro.

Well you don't get to become a 'top pro' by doing nothing. Seriously though, I doubt the recruiters are 'pro' by any stretch of the imagination.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#83

I found it interesting that the espionage is largely aimed at the private sector and not the government: > About 70 percent of China’s overall espionage is aimed at the U.S. private sector, rather than the government, said Joshua Skule, the head of the FBI’s intelligence division, which is charged with countering foreign espionage in the United States. > “They are conducting economic espionage at a rate that is unpar…

Think of a scenario where certain government employees have accounts on some Private sector service: Maybe a Grindr or Tinder -- if they can work to obtain any sort of compromising information from those services - they can then use it to manipulate government employees ("Do what I say, or i'll out you")... In fact, pretty sure a Chinese co. recently obtained controlling interest of Grindr. https://www.nytimes.com/20…

Hopefully the agencies have already thought of this, but it would be pretty easy to set up a honeypot with a veteran TS or higher clearance employee and tell him to set up fake accounts and see who comes knocking.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#85
post #9

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Why? That's the proven strategy to leapfrog yourself into a developed economy. It's what the US, Germany, and Japan all did.

The US, Germany, and Japan are all technology leaders. None of those nations leapfrogged into a developed nation by copying others.

This is patently false. Industrial espionage, or just plain-old gifts (To keep the commies out) kickstarted the manufacturing economies of all three of those countries.

Of course, once you become a manufacturing leader, you want to pull the ladder up from under you, in the form of strong IP laws.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

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post #15

I found it interesting that the espionage is largely aimed at the private sector and not the government: > About 70 percent of China’s overall espionage is aimed at the U.S. private sector, rather than the government, said Joshua Skule, the head of the FBI’s intelligence division, which is charged with countering foreign espionage in the United States. > “They are conducting economic espionage at a rate that is unpar…

It would be humorous if they recruited employees of startups, the philosophy of moving fast and break things along with spends as much money as possible as fast as you can will have China using sub-par software and bankrupt within months, countries can't pivot and looking for exit through acquisition would be nigh impossible!

Some people would argue that this has already happened.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#87

New jobs program: you pretend to have all kinds of heavy duty intel, let the Chinese government hire you and then milk the new position for all it is worth. Could be a thriller, but I would pitch this one as a comedy.

Interesting. From most Chinese prospect, American are stereotyped as naive, simple, and most time they are easy to be cheated.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#88
post #71

If you really want to lose sleep at night .... consider the fact that foreign intelligence agencies likely have EMPLOYEES at top tech companies....

American intelligence agencies likely have EMPLOYEES at top Chinese tech companies. Spies are going to spy. I'm far more concerned about my government spying on me, then China spying on me.

That's because you have no patriotism. You'd derive pleasure from seeing Americans get hurt or killed so long as they were ones that you disagree with.

Foreign spies on American companies is an extremely serious issue. What happens when a Chinese spy takes over a power plant? What happens when integrity tests at water treatment facilities are fraudulent? What happens when the wrong reaction happens in a big pharmaceutical processing plant?

Millions could die.

You're more worried about the government finding out what type of porn you prefer.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

#89

I found it interesting that the espionage is largely aimed at the private sector and not the government: > About 70 percent of China’s overall espionage is aimed at the U.S. private sector, rather than the government, said Joshua Skule, the head of the FBI’s intelligence division, which is charged with countering foreign espionage in the United States. > “They are conducting economic espionage at a rate that is unpar…

One company I worked for, we hired a Chinese DBA contractor. His initial move while onboarding was an attempt to burn an export of the entire customer database to a DVD. He got caught in the act and fired.

Re: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

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I’ve been saying this for years: Linked In is a spies dream. A data gold mine.

And at the end of the day it's just an HR department circle jerk. I am still getting aggressively daily emails from them even though I burned my account a year and a half ago. Report spam is my favorite feature.
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