This is a constant problem ⊠Chinese national Linwei âLeonâ Ding, employed by Google, takes off with files, spends four months in China fund raising for an AI company, while another Google employee was using his badge and clocking in for him.
This isnât some random grifter, this activity is driven by official CCP policy.
Enumeration:
Look back at the criminality related posts on this Substack.
Hilarious AT&T Breach Affects 73 Million
Beach Blanket Bingo, 21st Century Style
Russian SVR Rigs Slovakian Election
San Francisco Studio Simulacra
Actual Incident Response Today
State Department Counterintelligence
All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic, Especially Roger Stone
I have a hand in everything from purloined âlet me just adjust my bikini bottomâ photos, to piles of documents liberated via the action of nation state sponsored intruders, to stuff thatâs just out there and accessible via OSINT methods.
Prognostication:
If this is what things are like now, as globalization is just beginning to be understood to be a declining force, where are we headed? Letâs consider some likely macro events.
Chinaâs housing market is imploding, their retirees are liable to get a 75% (or worse) haircut on their savings, theyâve recently admitted theyâre short a hundred million kids theyâd previously booked, and they canât make jobs for two of every five of the young adults they DO have. No happy ending there.
Russia might take a step forward in Ukraine, but NATO is awakened, enlarged, and the European members understand whatâs been happening since 2007 is a strategy that wonât stop until Putin is removed. When he is, the already collapsed former Soviet Union is going to experience another ugly round of contraction.
The U.S. 2024 election is nominally presidential, but I think itâs a referendum on what direction the civil war that began on January 6th, 2021 is going to take. Will we have a confused grifter theocracy asset stripping, or a democracy wrestling with a much reduced federal remit in the red states? None of the above is NOT one of the options.
The Israeli government appears to be trying to draw Iran into direct conflict, because the minute things calm down something like 75% of all voters are done with Bibiâs BS. Six months of pummeling all of Gaza to get at small numbers of embedded Hamas will not bring back their 1,200 dead, and theyâre not at all confused about where responsibility rests for those deaths.
Every single one of those things make the world a darker, more dangerous place. And thatâs just the nuclear armed entities that are having convulsions right now.
The Real Open Border:
The real problematic border isnât the U.S. and Mexico, or Chinaâs nine dash line, or the line of control in Kashmir. The real problem isnât physical, itâs virtual.
Thatâs a visually pleasing twenty one year old map of the internetâs connectivity, when not quite 10% of Americans had high speed service at home.
That was three years ago. Chinaâs managed to create The Great Firewall, both Iran and Russia make fitful efforts in this direction, but they always backfire. Every other nation state that cares to try takes the espionage against journalists route.
Conclusion:
This is going into Geocyber, but itâs evolved into something much more than I intended when I opened the editor. Iâm going to come back and expand on this notion of the real open border some time later this week.