Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets (opens in new tab)

> because we, by statute and by culture, do not do that. So they have an asymmetric advantage when it comes to sex warfare.

Off the top of my head I can think of the multiple failed assassination attempts on Fidel Castro that used literal femme fatales. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. What's the point of saying (and printing) something so ludicrous?

Seems scaremongering. The only cases of espionage clearly described were dudes.

> at a business conference on Chinese investment risks hosted last week in Virginia, two attractive Chinese women showed up and attempted to gain entry. “We didn’t let them in,” he said. “But they had all the information [about the event] and everything else.”

Nothing there to say why these women were considered spies. Lack of a ticket?

Honeypotting probably does happen. But there's no real meat to this writeup, just an unattractive guy getting linkedin requests from attractive Chinese women.

>In May the Senate committee on small business and entrepreneurship found that six of the 25 largest recipients of federal funding via the Small Business Innovation Research programme had “clear links” to China — but still received nearly $180 million from the Pentagon in 2023 and 2024.

>Jeff Stoff, a security academic and former China and national security analyst for the US government, said that a lot of what China was doing was not illegal. Rather, they were taking advantage of America’s corporate vulnerabilities using regulatory blind spots.

>“The Chinese understand our system and they know how to work within it with virtual impunity — most of the time,” said Stoff.

I get the impression that this whole situation is sort of like how DOGE operated. Theres this "move fast and break things" ethos that Musk brought to DOGE that the establishment was not prepared for and it just overwhelmed them.

As each day passes, Im starting to think China is applying this mentality across their entire operations and the US government is not actually prepared at all.

I'm reminded of this snippet from Dwarkesh Patel talking about how Chinese really see things:

[1]:https://youtu.be/pE3KKUKXcTM?t=2021

I keep thinking there is this unseen "deep state" that has a handle on things and that the US is still competitive but day by day it seems like like there is no one actually behind the hidden door that has a handle on things.

Am I thinking things wrong? Am I just falling for pro-Chinese propaganda and that the US establishment actually knows what they are doing? Because if they don't Americans(and probably most of the west) are probably screwed long term.

Classically, spies are motivated by: money, ideology, coercion, or ego [1]. I wonder which it is. A Russian woman "marrying a target, having kids with a target — and conducting a lifelong collection operation" on an "aerospace company" in the "military-space innovation community".

I'd guess it has to be ego.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/9ccc45dc156271d1176...

> James Mulvenon says he has been targeted by suspected foreign agents ... “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman”

If I were the journalist, I would have asked for a statement from his wife.

Don’t be foolish and think it’s going to be female spies only. People should trust more sparingly.

Didn't Epstein introduce at least two tech executives (and one president) to their wives and get one of them divorced for introducing him to beautiful women and their daughters?

Anyone looking into that from a national security standpoint?