By Greg AustinInternet espionage as an equal opportunity discriminator. In China, the term “internet terror” is used to describe the practice of exposing people for corruption through vigilante action on the Internet.
This is a new phenomenon of the information age that is redefining Chinese politics. Corrupt intelligence agents in China with access to incriminating cyber evidence will leak against their political enemies.
Even China’s highest leaders have experienced this form of cyber terror, as evidenced by the bombshell stories in 2012 in two separate U.S. newspapers on the wealth of former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and then President-in-waiting, Xi …read more
Source: The Globalist
