Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 4/8/23
China's all-out spy war, Mites at CMU raise privacy concerns, IPVM is a surveillance tech reporting powerhouse, Advertiser access to medical visits, US TikTok ban would cripple foreign creators, more
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China Has Been Waging a Decades-Long, All-Out Spy War
Historian Calder Waltin in Foreign Policy reviews how the Chinese government has for nearly twenty years been building intelligence and surveillance capabilities that tower over comparable operations in Western nations, unrestrained by political bodies or the law.
China’s foreign intelligence offensive has reached new levels since Xi took power in 2012. Its purpose involves what all intelligence agencies do: to understand the intentions and capabilities of foreign adversaries. But China’s offensive goes much further: to steal as many scientif…
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