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Tuesday, 14 October 2014
NSA may have undercover agents in Chinese companies
New revelations from documents leaked by US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which suggested the NSA may have undercover agents in mainland companies, have prompted criticism from Beijing.
NSA may have undercover agents in mainland companies
Angela Meng 14 October 2014
New revelations from documents leaked by US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which suggested the NSA may have undercover agents in mainland companies, have prompted criticism from Beijing.
The documents, released by Peter Maass and Laura Poitras via The Intercept, an independent online publication, depict a “top secret” government programme that not only hacks foreign systems, but also plants undercover operatives into “commercial entities”.
Poitras met and filmed Snowden when he was seeking asylum in Hong Kong.
“You are being indoctrinated on Sentry Eagle”, the document reads, a programme designed to “protect America’s cyberspace”.
Under the umbrella title Sentry Eagle, the document describes six clandestine programmes, including Sentry Osprey, which appears to involve human intelligence operations.
The documents list South Korea, Germany and China as sites where the NSA has deployed a “forward-based Tarex [for target exploitation, according to the report] presence”.
It is unclear which commercial entities, foreign or domestic, the NSA has infiltrated, or the extent of its infiltration, such as whether undercover agents are working as full-time employees or visiting businessmen.
The 13-page document is dated from 2004 and it is not known if any changes have been made to the programme.
“The briefing document suggests another category of employees - ones who are secretly working for the NSA without anyone else being aware,” The Intercept report said.
In a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of yesterday’s People’s Daily, Zhang Junshe, a military expert, said revelations by Snowden and statistics from the China Academy of Cyber Space have enabled the “international community” to see the “real face” of the “world police”, the United States.
“Snowden’s latest revelations once again confirmed that the US is the world’s biggest cyberespionage attacker,” Zhang wrote.
Tensions between China and the US on cybersecurity issues have intensified this year.
In May, the US Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese military for stealing trade secrets and cyberespionage.
China’s State Internet Information Office published the country’s data on US cyberattacks in May.
The data claimed that from March 19 to May 18 of this year, 2,077 Trojan horse networks or botnet services in the US directly controlled 1.18 million host computers in China.
The Intercept report also mentioned a threat from Chinese intelligence operation on American companies.
“The NSA is a risk [but] I worry a lot more about the Chinese,” The Intercept report quoted Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare, a server company, as saying.
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NSA may have undercover agents in mainland companies
Angela Meng
14 October 2014
New revelations from documents leaked by US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which suggested the NSA may have undercover agents in mainland companies, have prompted criticism from Beijing.
The documents, released by Peter Maass and Laura Poitras via The Intercept, an independent online publication, depict a “top secret” government programme that not only hacks foreign systems, but also plants undercover operatives into “commercial entities”.
Poitras met and filmed Snowden when he was seeking asylum in Hong Kong.
“You are being indoctrinated on Sentry Eagle”, the document reads, a programme designed to “protect America’s cyberspace”.
Under the umbrella title Sentry Eagle, the document describes six clandestine programmes, including Sentry Osprey, which appears to involve human intelligence operations.
The documents list South Korea, Germany and China as sites where the NSA has deployed a “forward-based Tarex [for target exploitation, according to the report] presence”.
It is unclear which commercial entities, foreign or domestic, the NSA has infiltrated, or the extent of its infiltration, such as whether undercover agents are working as full-time employees or visiting businessmen.
The 13-page document is dated from 2004 and it is not known if any changes have been made to the programme.
“The briefing document suggests another category of employees - ones who are secretly working for the NSA without anyone else being aware,” The Intercept report said.
In a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of yesterday’s People’s Daily, Zhang Junshe, a military expert, said revelations by Snowden and statistics from the China Academy of Cyber Space have enabled the “international community” to see the “real face” of the “world police”, the United States.
“Snowden’s latest revelations once again confirmed that the US is the world’s biggest cyberespionage attacker,” Zhang wrote.
Tensions between China and the US on cybersecurity issues have intensified this year.
In May, the US Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese military for stealing trade secrets and cyberespionage.
China’s State Internet Information Office published the country’s data on US cyberattacks in May.
The data claimed that from March 19 to May 18 of this year, 2,077 Trojan horse networks or botnet services in the US directly controlled 1.18 million host computers in China.
The Intercept report also mentioned a threat from Chinese intelligence operation on American companies.
“The NSA is a risk [but] I worry a lot more about the Chinese,” The Intercept report quoted Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare, a server company, as saying.
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