Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
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Even more interesting is that a Chinese company owns most of Grindr. Think of all the possible blackmail opportunities if they could cross reference those. At some point there were security and privacy "concerns" and US, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen... ruled that the Chinese company had to sell Grindr by 2020.
Seems like a big scandal happens every few years. This is career-ruining if you’ve built your career on hypocrisy and self-hate, as at least a handful of politicians have.
And of course there are individuals who would rather not make that preference public because they have business elsewhere. If you had intended to do business in the middle east, it is a real material loss to be outed, or to be selectively/privately outed with just the right people to make your life difficult.
Of course, activists tend to choose the most useless and counterproductive ways to promote safety and tolerance for homosexuals, so something tells me things will tend to get worse when they could've gotten better. You could expect things to get worse, especially as the zoomers are exposed to these activists rather than to the truth.
https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/04/former-anti-gay-gop-rep-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal
I suspect the government sources in the article would appreciate it if the politicos above keep themselves relatively clean of unnecessary foreign contacts for the next year as the remaining few folks still in government are probably giving at least 50% odds that the Democrats win again in 2020, and are thus anticipating the possibility of large backlog of background investigations checking in about 1 nano-second after the election.
Having foreign contacts, despite current furore, is not a crime, or improper. Now if you’re doing bad things, that’s obviously a crime and will result in disqualification, but simply “contacts”? No, that’s no reason for DQ.
At the time I thought it would be the bee's knees for espionage.
Sounds like the digital version of Number Stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
We had an intrusion on some dev boxes. The vector was an open management service on some public facing Tomcats, deployed open by accident. The intruder installed a custom Tomcat container that apparently sent some 443 traffic to a .cn domain. We figured they got some class files, not much use to anyone without the rest of our products. We never got to see their actual payload. So we killed the instances and that was that.
A week or two later, a few of us at $work got recruit pings on LI from a Chinese company to work abroad. None before or since. We figured either it was a coincidence, or whoever got our class files wanted some help learning how our product worked.
Recruiting agents abroad is one thing - I'd think this would also be useful / more useful for social engineering attacks and other deeper attacks on sensitive networks. "Hey I was with you at university - want to grab coffee? Friend me!" > Now has access to the entire network of cleared professionals working at [place X]
B) It might be better spycraft to use this obvious entry to Chinese intelligence in the other direction. Of course TFA may just be cover for that... are there any details that seem plausible but perhaps misleading?
C) These people ain't playin'. No one wants to end up like Shane Todd.
Since most people don't record phonecalls, it's easy to deny this sort of thing; and since it's similar to an official activity of the government there, I suspect for a lot of people it goes unnoticed, if it is more common.
I've never visited the PRC, and I have no intention of ever visiting it as long as it is run by the party.
Chinese students here are under watch as well, and it's not all that subtle. You should read some of the things that go on in North American schools.
You can think what you want, but this is not that.
"LinkedIn is also the only major American social media platform not blocked in China because the company has agreed to censor posts containing delicate material."