{"id":26035,"date":"2014-05-30T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26035"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:26:28","slug":"french-spies-are-number-two-in-the-world-of-industrial-cyber-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/french-spies-are-number-two-in-the-world-of-industrial-cyber-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;French spies [are] number two in the world of industrial cyber-espionage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High praise indeed for French espionage operatives from &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/05\/30\/france_a_cyberespionage_threat_says_robert_gates\/\" target=\"_blank\">former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former spy and defense department secretary Robert Gates has identified France as a major cyber-spying threat against the US.<\/p>\n<p>In statements that are bound to raise eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic, Gates (not Bill) nominated French spies as being number two in the world of industrial cyber-espionage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the most capable, next to the Chinese, are the French \u2013 and they&#8217;ve been doing it a long time\u201d he says in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/defense-and-security\/russian-chinese-assertiveness-poses-new-foreign-policy-challenges\/p33005\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a precis, <em>The Register<\/em> will give you some of Gates&#8217;s (not Bill) words verbatim, starting just after 21 minutes in the video, when he answers a question about America&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/05\/19\/us_authorities_name_five_chinese_military_hackers_wanted_for_espionage\/\" target=\"_blank\">indictment<\/a> of five Chinese military hackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have accused the Chinese of doing \u2013 stealing American companies&#8217; secrets and technology \u2013 is not new, nor is it something that&#8217;s done only by the Chinese,\u201d Gates tells the interviewer. \u201cThere are probably a dozen or fifteen countries that steal our technology in this way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the most capable, next to the Chinese, are probably the French, and they&#8217;ve been doing it a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High praise indeed for French espionage operatives from &#8230; former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates: Former spy and defense department secretary Robert Gates has identified France as a major cyber-spying threat against the US. 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