{"id":42747,"date":"2009-07-27T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=42747"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:17:57","slug":"china-using-the-internet-to-spy-on-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/china-using-the-internet-to-spy-on-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"China Using the Internet to Spy on Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/national\/20090721-20737.html\">The Local <\/a><\/strong>reports that the German government believes that Chinese agents are using the internet to spy on Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walter Opfermann from the state office for counterintelligence in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg said on Tuesday that state-backed Chinese spying via the web had already become extremely sophisticated \u2013 going beyond merely acquiring information.<\/p>\n<p>He said Beijing could also \u201cunleash effective sabotage\u201d on German targets, posing a growing \u201cthreat to critical infrastructure\u201d such as the country\u2019s power grid.<\/p>\n<p>The internet is also apparently being used for industrial espionage alongside traditional methods of stealing knowhow at German companies. Opfermann said China \u2013 but also Russia \u2013 used spying over the web \u201cto save billions on their own economic research and development.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also past CDT posts on online spying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local reports that the German government believes that Chinese agents are using the internet to spy on Germany: Walter Opfermann from the state office for counterintelligence in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg said on Tuesday that state-backed Chinese spying via the web had already become extremely sophisticated \u2013 going beyond merely acquiring information. 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