Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets

Re:Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Va... by pjc50 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:10AM (#45680210)

The CIA messed up their spies in Iran: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...

And of course there was almost certainly a lot lost in the sudden withdrawal of USAID.

There's a lot of Israeli "cybersecurity" firms, some of which overtly make and sell spyware.

> I'm not sure Americans are any more susceptible to bribery than elsewhere

Americans are more expensive, but high level political bribery and compromise is possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina

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Re:Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Va... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:35AM (#45680327)

> Americans are more expensive

Not so sure about that. I remember reading an interview, back in the '90s, with a lobbyist that was convicted and jailed for bribery. He said that US congress[wo]men were surprisingly cheap. He could get a billion-dollar contract awarded, for a couple of thousand bucks.

I think Johnny Walker Red[0] sold sub secrets (the worst kind), for just a couple of million bucks.

Then, there was ABSCAM[1]. That was embarrassing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam

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