People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies
Chinese intelligence officers like to use the professional social network — in which people often accept pings from strangers — to recruit sources within the U.S. government.
One of America's most recent espionage cases started with a friendly hello over the Internet.
It ended with a jury in Virginia finding former CIA officer Kevin Mallory guilty of spying for China. The Mallory case — a rare counterintelligence investigation to go to trial — provides a lesson in how Chinese spies use social media to try to recruit or co-opt Americans.
For the head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, John Demers, it also highlights a broader point.
"The Chinese," Demers told NPR, "are our
