“China – Communist Slave State”

Hostile spy agencies are now as focused on infiltrating western universities and companies as they are on doing so to governments, according to the former head of Canada’s intelligence service.

David Vigneault warned that a recent “industrial-scale” attempt by China to steal new technologies showed the need for increased vigilance from academics.

“The frontline has moved, from being focused on government information to private sector innovation, research innovation and universities,” he told the Guardian in his first interview since leaving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which is part of the “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing alliance with the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Even before the dam collapsed, Lamec did not feel safe working at the copper mine.

“If our work protective gear gets damaged, it is not always replaced,” he tells us. “We have to take a risk and use it again.”

He is talking to the BBC in a car on a quiet backroad near a village in northern Zambia, too nervous to speak to us in public or to use his real name, for fear that speaking to the press might cost him his livelihood.

China is the new Honeybadger

“Alibaba provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against targets in the U.S.”

That is what a White House memo charges, according to a November 14 report in the Financial Times. The White House has declined comment.

The Chinese giant reportedly provided “access to customer data that includes IP addresses, WiFi information and payment records, as well as different AI-related services.”