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> What are the chances of an agent being hired and then promoted to have access to an SCI file you're interested in? I think the chances are higher if you expa
by privong 10y ago
> What are the chances of an agent being hired and then promoted to have access to an SCI file you're interested in?
I think the chances are higher if you expand the realm of interest to industrial espionage.
- ethbro 10y agoStatistically, this seems like a better bet for using the agents.
- johansch 10y agoRight. For instance, if you are China.. odds are you have agents in Google and Facebook, right now.
- nradov 10y agoMaybe not full-time spies but Chinese intelligence almost certainly targets such organizations with their “thousand grains of sand” approach. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/a-new-kind-of-spy/ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/a-new-kind-of-s...
- rdtsc 10y agoWorking in defense and talking to candidates who applied from China (graduated from M.S. programs at some US universities), I sometimes wondered if some who applied would be agents working for Chinese Intelligence services...
- johansch 10y agoI can relate to that. I had my doubts about a former Chinese exchange student we hired. I was relieved when he made a very public display of anger against this 3d/globe thing we had to illustrate user activity because it happened to show Taiwan as a separate entity from China. So I guess I can recommend that as a trigger... (Someone with a mission would have kept quiet, I think.)