Get the latest tech news

Why Chinese spies are sending a chill through Silicon Valley


Tech companies are a growing target for corporate espionage and trade theft

After reviewing CCTV footage, investigators found that several weeks earlier the Chinese national had convinced a colleague to scan his access badge at Google’s offices, creating the illusion he was at work. Spying is nothing new in Silicon Valley, which owes its status as an innovation powerhouse to buckets of US government spending during the Cold War, funding processors that could target missiles and put men on the moon. US officials recently launched an investigation into how advanced chips had made it into a phone manufactured by China’s Huawei, amid concerns it is illegally bypassing a volley of American sanctions.

Get the Android app

Or read this on r/technology

Read more on:

Photo of Chinese

Chinese

Photo of silicon valley

silicon valley

Photo of chinese spies

chinese spies

Related news:

News photo

Millions of U.S. Cellphones Could Be Vulnerable to Chinese Government Surveillance

News photo

Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta’s open-source Llama model — ChatBIT allegedly performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI GPT-4 LLM

News photo

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan