Re:Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
by differentView on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @12:18PM
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>Wast majority of people who spied for China have had Chinese heritage.
Though I also believe this to be true, what we know for sure are that most of the people CAUGHT spying for China had Chinese heritage.
Re:Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
by electromagnetic on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @05:29PM
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Exactly, its easy to spot a Chinese spy when you investigate your Chinese workers.
The notion that a spy is only someone loyal to a country is just quite frankly, silly.
No one says that spies are always loyal to a country. It's not surprising that made-up positions are silly.
your point 1 proves what I was saying: it's technically very easy to defend against Chinese spies -- just enact more stringent ethnic profiling. I'm not saying this is desirable, but even at very high level it clearly restricts attacking surface quite dramatically. The difficulties are political rather than technical in nature.
I partially agree with your point 2, but "according to American counterintelligence" the sky is falling every other day unless the spooks get more money and less supervision. Relying on government sources in a thread about Snowden feels a bit weird.
Be sure to block all of the white guys with yellow fever, while you're at it.
No, it's not a "political" problem.
1. Ideology has not been the major modus operandi in long time (since 50's). Nowadays idealogical reasons are replaced by cultural and ethnic loyalties. Wast majority of people who spied for China have had Chinese heritage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_operation...
2. Money and personal problems/reasons seems to be major reason for spying against US and for Soviet Union/Russia during and after cold war (Hanssen, Ames) According to American counterintelligence Russian espionage reached Cold War levels already in in 2007.