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  • #16
    What to Know About the Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago

    What’s going on with Mar-a-Lago and Chinese spies, explained

    The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining access to Trump's Mar-A-Lago allegedly had a hidden camera detector in her hotel room

    Pompeo suggests woman arrested at Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort may have been spying for China

    Chinese woman who entered Mar-a-Lago with possible intent to spy denied bail
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    • #17
      Dutch probe China's Huawei for possible spying: Report
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      • #18
        Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset for China

        Magic Leap Inc., a U.S. startup that makes a headset to project digital objects onto the real world, accused one of its former engineers of stealing its technology to create his own augmented reality device for China.

        In a lawsuit filed Monday, Magic Leap alleges that Chi Xu, who left in 2016, exploited its confidential information to “quickly develop a prototype of lightweight, ergonomically designed, mixed reality glasses for use with smart phones and other devices that are strikingly similar” to the Florida-based startup’s designs.

        The lawsuit marks the latest accusation from an American firm of intellectual property theft by Chinese companies, a perennial sore point that’s helped escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies. With more than $2 billion in financing, Magic Leap is one of the better-funded startups delving into so-called augmented or mixed reality, a technology that gives users the illusion that fantastical, three-dimensional digital objects exist in the physical world.

        Xu, who founded Beijing-based Hangzhou Tairuo Technology Co., also known as Nreal, unveiled his own augmented reality glasses at a major Las Vegas trade show in January, touting them as lighter than the Magic Leap One, Forbes has reported.

        Apart from Magic Leap, Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are also developing products for virtual or augmented reality. It remains to be seen whether anyone can turn the area into a big money-spinner.

        Magic Leap released its headset last August after seven years of secretive work and more than $2 billion of investment. The startup alleges that Xu plotted during his roughly 13 months working there to launch his own competing company in China and “neglected his work duties” to acquire proprietary information.

        “Whereas Nreal purported to develop its Nreal Light product in under two years, Magic Leap developed its technology after extensive investment of time (multiple years), money (hundreds of millions of dollars spent on research and development) and human resources (hundreds of engineers),” according to the complaint.

        Xu is accused in the suit of breach of contract, fraud and unfair competition. Nreal is also named as a defendant. Representatives at Nreal had no immediate comment on the lawsuit, while Xu did not respond to a message sent to his LinkedIn account.

        The case is Magic Leap Inc. v. Xu, 19-cv-03445, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

        — With assistance by Zheping Huang
        What we cannot build, we steal - new chinese proverb.
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        • #19
          MFSocket: A Chinese surveillance tool

          It is well known that China spies on its fellow citizens. In this article I will tell you the story of an Android application called MFSocket, a new monitoring tool made in China. This tool allows the police to extract from the victim’s phone a lot of data such as calendar events, SMS, MMS, videos, contacts, Telegram contacts, …

          The Story
          On June 21, 2019 Muyi Xiao, a Chinese journalist, posted on Twitter a thread on an Android application called MFSocket. On Chinese social networks people started to report about police checking people’s phones in Beijing and Shanghai and she decided to investigate.

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          Indeed by searching ‘MFSocket’ on Google I find this type of report:
          - “When the police check the phone, it will be installed for you: Mfsocket”
          - “Yesterday, the company asked us to go to the police station, and then the police installed a software called MFsocket. I thought it was monitoring software!”

          In her thread, Muyi mentioned the company behind MFSocket. She found a troubleshoot guide which link the app to a company called Meiya Pico.

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          Meiya Pico is not a new player. In two excellent articles, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal exposed them as a Chinese firm who sell forensics products to the Chinese authorities.

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          Important info from the troubleshoot guide. The police seems to use Windows to operate the app. Interesting, we will use this info later.

          Muyi did a fantastic journalistic job, now it’s time to do my job. Am I able to technically confirm what she found? What are the technical capabilities of MFSocket?

          Technical Analysis
          Overview

          The first task was to find a sample of the app. I searched “MFSocket” on Koodous and I got 48 different samples.

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          After building an Android app, the developer must sign his app with his own certificate. You can consider the certificate as the company identity card. In this case, 3 different certificates were used to sign MFSocket which is unusual.
          The article is long. To read it completely, please click on the title.
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          • #20
            Going only with the titles. Woman who has a hidden camera detector is ensuring SHE isn't being spied on. This is just opsec.

            Does not necessarily make her a spy if she is paranoid about her privacy.

            So then people reflexively say, if you got nothing to hide.....

            Think about that for a second.

            You are inverting the innocent until proven guilty principle. If you gotta spy on the guests then you don't trust the guests to start with.

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            • #21
              Here is the current state of play wrt to Huawei & 5G

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              3 out of the five eyes countries have banned Huawei.

              Two are still pending under no decision. Canada & UK

              The Indian minister says they are undergoing trials not that he has accepted Huawei.

              Vodafone partners with Huawei & Ericsson

              Airtel partners with Nokia, Huawei & Ericsson

              Reliance JIO partners with Samsung
              Last edited by Double Edge; 01 Jan 20,, 14:37.

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              • #22
                German intel warns against giving data to Chinese tech firms
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                • #23
                  No thread to post this.

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                  • #24
                    A report says China is suspected of hacking the Vatican. Here's why

                    The communists are hacking left, right and center.
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                    • #25
                      Interesting article showing China's shipbuilding activity from and industrial naval and civilian point of view. China is driving hard in an effort to reduce the market share, and therefore Western countries industrial capability to build ships, both Naval and civilian. The Kaiser shipyards of the 1940s are long gone from US shores.... It seems the Chinese are building an equally robust shipbuilding capability to build every type of craft, from cruise to cargo to warship. Fincantieri and Chantiers de l'Atlantique are squarely in their sights.

                      How they are building to supplant the European maritime industry supply chain is chilling. The idea of the loss of standard setting influence to the Chinese would be a huge coup.

                      https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JEM...-shipbuilding/

                      Key paragraphs:
                      The Commission’s lack of forward thinking on China’s industrial policies and the consequences for European shipbuilding has received almost no attention in Western debates despite the serious economic and security challenges posed by China’s emergence as a major force in the shipbuilding industry. European and US competitiveness is threatened across a wide range of maritime productions related to the building of ships such as cruise ships, cargo ships, and frigates. This could lead to a loss of jobs and profit. In the long term, it could also lead to a loss of standard setting influence, a development that is already starting to emerge in some high-tech sectors where China has taken the lead. At the moment, China is experimenting with the establishment of a standardization organization that would be available to partners of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s program for global economic development. Standard setting can be used by China as a barrier for companies from non-BRI countries to enter markets, because such countries do not have access to the key technologies and designs required to meet the standards.

                      The security challenges arising from Chinese shipbuilding are equally worrying. China is on the threshold of establishing economies of scale in shipbuilding, producing commercial and military vessels in large quantities. China has already quickly expanded its naval forces and continues to develop the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) into a global force to protect China’s global economic and security interests. The PLAN’s latest Chinese-produced surface and subsurface platforms such as missile-guided destroyers, high-capability intelligence collection ships, and autonomous underwater vehicles are key to future naval warfare. China is producing naval platforms at the same production sites as its commercial fleet, again aiming at economies of scale to make China a major independent arms manufacturer. This development enables China to carry out naval operations beyond China’s immediate neighborhood and poses a threat in regions such as the Americas and the Arctic—far from China’s shores.

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                      • #26
                        5 Chinese nationals charged in mega hacking scheme, Indian govt networks hit: US
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