Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 3/11/23

China's attempts to spy through its diaspora, Wirecard's efforts to silence critics, Home surveillance privacy collision, Facial scanning in NYC, Rotterdam's suspicion machine, Biden's cloud problem

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The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee examines in the New York Times magazine how the Chinese government has been conducting a damaging campaign to steal American trade secrets and intellectual property for decades for not only military secrets but also commercial technologies by attempting to exploit huge numbers of people of Chinese origin who have settled in the West.

Perhaps most unsettling is the way China has sought to exploit the huge numbers of people of Chinese origin who have settled in the West. The Ministry of State Security, alo…