Chinese Spies Friended NATO Officials With A Fake Facebook Account

[webfact]

Chinese spies friended NATO officials with a fake Facebook account

James Stavridis is a United States Navy admiral. Last year a lot of high-ranked British military officers and Defense Ministry officials became his friend on Facebook. The only problem with that was the profile pretending to be the US Commander Stavridis was in fact run by a group of Chinese spies.

By friending all these government officials the Chinese spies gained access to lots of information, such as email addresses, pictures of friends and family, phone numbers, the names of family members and who knows maybe even delicate

details of their movements. [more...]

http://www.nettechbl...cebook-account/

-- nettechblog.com 2012-03-13

[Crushdepth]

Hi level defence officials have Facebook accounts

Time to give them new jobs as high level toilet cleaners...

[Derifo]

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Hi level defence officials have Facebook accounts

Time to give them new jobs as high level toilet cleaners...

One would think they can actually think straight and be very concious of their actions. But alas!

[benbear]

This has to be the best story I have read all year, so far and some how it can't get any better.

[bendejo]

Last year a rather outspoken US politician became online friends with a female Las Vegas blackjack dealer.

It resulted in him sending revealing pics of himself to 'her' and the rest is history, or rather the end of the politician's history.

I'm thoroghly convinced the blackjack dealer was actually a notorious right-wing prankster/blogger.

That blogger died recently, by the way. End of his history as well.

I think it's a fair question to ask just how smart are these guys anyway. Then consider the kind of decisions they are responsible for.

[bendejo]

oops!