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German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying (apnews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-tension dept.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned that China allegedly is using social networks to try to cultivate lawmakers and other officials as sources. From a report: Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents posing as consultants, headhunters or researchers, primarily on the social networking site LinkedIn. "This is a broad-based attempt to infiltrate in particular parliaments, ministries and government agencies," Maassen said.

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  1. Re:Of course the communist chinese are spying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, sure. Same goes for the US, since they were caught spying on Germany, and anyone that deals with the US and Germany, since we have spy operations coming out of Hamburg. I'm with you 100%. This shit needs to stop.

  2. Everybody with the means and motive spies by Baron_Yam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Next tell me water is wet, I'm waiting on that breaking news with great anticipation!

    Intelligence services do intelligence and counter-intelligence work on behalf of domestic political and corporate interests. Specific instances of this are made public when convenient for propaganda purposes.

    Unless you really think none of the EU nations is spying on the Chinese...

    1. Re: Everybody with the means and motive spies by WindBourne · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Absolutely, we are all spying all over. However, China has been stepping it up. Basically, they are focusing less and less on internal matters and more to external. Personally, I have the utmost respect for Merkel, but there are times that I wonder if she should not be a bit more eastern German. And yeah, trump is absolutely the wrong president for this moment. There are some major changes about to happen in.the world dealing with china, and Russia, but esp China. And this traitor allowed himself to be bought.

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  3. Nah. by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It has been there all the time. They are just taking a different tack. It is long past time for the west, esp nato nations, to restore the security approach that we had during the last cold war. After all, both China and Russia see themselves in a cold war with the west.

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