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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

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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.

Really? I remembered when the Americans accused the Japanese of copying.

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

#52
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> "I recently saw that Twitter is cancelling, I don’t know, millions of fake accounts, and our request would be maybe LinkedIn could go ahead and be part of that" Wow. Strong language from the head of the U.S. National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center

There is absolutely no reason why anyone from areas like China need to see the linked in profile of people working in special jobs for the us. They should be taken out of the social graph. Its so silly.

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

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this might sound really awkward but a few weeks ago two chinese linkedin accounts approached me and asked me to attend a career fair based in nyc and boston but i declined and said I don't understand/ can read Chinese. sorry. And now this news comes out.

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

#55
post #19

A company I worked for in a $hot_field had some dev servers breached from some IPs in China; they got some of our app's buggy class files and not much more. It's the kind of app you need a bunch of corporate culture to use effectively, so the jars aren't much use. Anyway, a few days later, a bunch of us in our R+D group got LI invites from Chinese recruiters out of the blue. Because of the timing and supposed motivat…

You could troll them.

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

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can inoculate ourselves to this threat by not caring about what politicians, government workers, and other people in general do in their private romantic lives.

Well, a think a spouse might justifiably care in the case of cheating.

Now we will also get a few posts normalising cheating.

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

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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…

Seems reasonable that the Chinese feel like they have more to gain through economic espionage against the US than they do through political espionage.

I would guess there are countries against whom the Chinese would do the opposite, where economic espionage isn't worthwhile but compromising the government is.

The US, on the other hand, probably has more to gain through political espionage against the Chinese than through economic espionage.

All depends on what you think you need?

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

#58
post #3

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

Pretty much any social network is a dictator's wet dream. Dictatorships in the past hired entire departments to identify who was linked to who. Nowadays is seems that all it takes to access the same info is sending a legal letter to someone managing a database somewhere.

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

#59

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.

Sounds like a great way to get on the bad side of both the Chinese and American governments. Plus you're in a foreign country with fewer people to watch out for you.

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

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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…

Seems reasonable that the Chinese feel like they have more to gain through economic espionage against the US than they do through political espionage. I would guess there are countries against whom the Chinese would do the opposite, where economic espionage isn't worthwhile but compromising the government is. The US, on the other hand, probably has more to gain through political espionage against the Chinese than thr…

> I would guess there are countries against whom the Chinese would do the opposite, where economic espionage isn't worthwhile but compromising the government is.

Yep, in Africa, and probably along their "New Silk Road".

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