Why LinkedIn is a dream for Chinese spies targeting Britain – The Times

LinkedIn has never featured in a James Bond movie and probably never will, yet it is far more useful to a spy than any gadget in 007’s arsenal. In a few taps of a keyboard you can find your pool of potential targets and clues on how to recruit them.That used to be difficult. Before the internet our spy services struggled to work out who was who in the Soviet system. Get the wrong Mr Ivanov and you might incur huge costs and risks “getting alongside” the target — only to find you had the wrong man.LinkedIn has changed that. Imagine that you are a Chinese spy interested in British officials who have worked in the top secret rocket-testing range at Benbecula inRelated articles
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