spy

www.thestar.com — China routinely places state security agents in Xinhua news bureaus around the world, according to a senior Chinese journalist. Foreign correspondent jobs are appointed by the Ministry of State Security duties include intelligence gathering. This comes on the heals of revelations in Ottawa about the relationship between Mississauga MP Bob Dechert and Xinhua's Toronto bureau chief, Shi Rong.

news.yahoo.com — He had been a seemingly all-American, clean-cut guy: No criminal record. Engaged to be married. A job teaching English overseas. In letters to the judge, loved ones described the 29-year-old Midwesterner as honest and caring — a good citizen. His fiancee called him "Mr. Patriot."

spectator.org — Joan Hinton, a onetime prep school student and ski instructor who worked on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb during World War II, then moved to China and spent the rest of her life as a devoted follower of Mao Zedong, died June 8 at a hospital in Beijing.

www.cbsnews.com — (CBS) "60 Minutes" has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of espionage and illustrates how China’s spying may now pose the biggest espionage threat to the U.S.

yro.slashdot.org — Bear with me, this is much bigger than the Google story when it comes to any 'China hack/privacy threat'. When visiting a secure webpage the traffic is encrypted with a certificate (that makes the URL bar turn gold, or green in some cases). SSL certificates are issued and electronically signed by a group group of trusted issuers like Verisign, that list is stored in your browser.