3-19-2009 A veteran Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States says that his country’s civilian spy service spends most of its time trying to steal secrets overseas but also works to bolster Beijing’s Communist Party rule by repressing religious and political dissent internally. Li Fengzhi was interviewed by The Washington Times aided by an interpreter. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/19/exclusive-chinese-spy-who-defected-tells-all/
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https://books.google.com/books?id=nNkeJFy2Se8C&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=Li+Fengzhi&source=bl&ots=QXDFBm3W02&sig=sHsbAr_Yqy4x3zNRR5VDQMMX7NY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7_qnU4fzcAhUgHDQIHZreB1I4FBDoATAFegQIBBAB#v=onepage&q=Li%20Fengzhi&f=false
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-LIiFengzhi When the Obama Administration came into power they sought to deport him back to the People’s Republic of China.
The idea of deporting Mr. Li, shocked and befuddled some; like Michelle Van Cleave, chief of National Intelligence Executive, which is the policy setting arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Van Cleave expressed her perplexity to the Washington Post in 2010 when she said, “I can’t understand why the Obama Administration would oppose Li’s application for asylum.” She knew Li Fengzhi faced almost certain imprisonment, even execution for treason should he wind up back in the People’s Republic of China. After all, those like Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. consider dissidents like Li to be traitors to the Chinese government and the Communist ideal. Because, not only did Li Fengzhi reveal he was an operative with the MSS, but he also exposed the ministry’s true purpose. For decades the Communist regime claimed the function of the MSS was simply to secure the safety of the nation and its people. However, Li’s revelations told a different story altogether. https://evonews.com/world-news/2017/jun/28/seeking-asylum-the-case-of-former-chinese-operative-li-fengzhi/
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1-25-2018 The problem, according to Wray, is that law enforcement is stymied by phone encryption, which is now widespread. During his January 9th speech at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York, Wray called the prevalence of encryption an “urgent public safety issue” and said it had prevented law enforcement from accessing some 7,800 devices in the last fiscal year. Tech companies, Wray said, “should be able to design devices that both provide data security and permit lawful access with a court order.”
But this is exactly what cryptographers and tech companies have repeatedly warned they can’t do, arguing that creating “lawful access” would also open the door to all sorts of hackers and malicious actors, undermining the security of the entire internet in the process. https://gizmodo.com/senator-demands-fbi-director-explain-his-encryption-bac-1822400040
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2-16-2018 These brainiac cryptography experts called on Mr. Wray to present his ideas on to do this so that the cryptography community could bang on them and make sure they work.
“Just because a non-technical person believes that such a system can be developed does not make it so,” they wrote in a response to Senator Wyden. “In fact many experts have warned that security would be weakened by exceptional access mechanisms.”
They added, “Instead of vague proposals that sound reasonable yet lack details, the FBI needs to present the cryptographic research community with a detailed description of the technology that it would like implemented. That would allow the technology to be analyzed in an open and transparent manner so that its advantages and disadvantages can be weighed.”
Mind you, there is a snowball’s chance in hell that such descriptions exist because it’s not possible, as the world of cryptography (and U.S. intelligence services) have understood for many years. https://www.macobserver.com/columns-opinions/the-back-page/cryptography-experts-repudiate-fbi-director-chris-wray/
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12-14-2017 BfV chief Hans-Georg Maassen said China's spy agency created several fake profiles posing as consultants, policy experts, scholars and headhunters. Many of the profiles include pictures of stylish young professionals. One of the accounts was credited to "Laeticia Chen," who claimed to be a manager at the "China Center of International Politics and Economy." The profile image was taken from an online fashion catalogue.
"The infections are difficult to detect, since network connections between service providers and their customers aren't suspicious," the BfV said. "This gives the attacker an even better disguise than before.” https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/china/mss-ops.htm
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/chinas-ministry-state-security
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