{"id":5121,"date":"2011-08-06T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2011-08-06T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:28:09","slug":"bad-action-movie-plot-chinese-hackers-and-mexican-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/08\/06\/bad-action-movie-plot-chinese-hackers-and-mexican-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad action movie plot: Chinese hackers and Mexican cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2011\/09\/chinese-hacking-201109?printable=true\">Vanity Fair<\/a> expose on likely Chinese hacking of many important corporations and government agencies by Michael Joseph Gross describes a ploy I&#8217;d only known from Hollywood movie: infiltrators intercepting calls to the victim&#8217;s security dept. in order to field these calls and prevent detection.<\/p>\n<p>The scene prompted me to imagine a contemporary kind of international crime syndicate, wherein Chinese hackers are linked up with Mexican drug traffickers to insert in-the-flesh proxies in American companies via janitorial services. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it would probably be far more valuable to a foreign power to produce a &#8220;Manchurian CTO,&#8221; etc.. On the other, some people tend to really disregard the &#8220;hired help.&#8221; It&#8217;s easier for the butler (or maid) to have done it if he\/she is considered &#8220;dumb&#8221; due to their foreignness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanity Fair expose on likely Chinese hacking of many important corporations and government agencies by Michael Joseph Gross describes a ploy I&#8217;d only known from Hollywood movie: infiltrators intercepting calls to the victim&#8217;s security dept. in order to field these calls and prevent detection. The scene prompted me to imagine a contemporary kind of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}