Today, Reuters has an exclusive interview with William Evanina, the U.S.chief of counter-intelligence, and in it he discusses the Chinese use of Linkedin to recruit people for intelligence work - mostly stealing technology from US companies. The Chinese seem to not be able to live without stealing and get their sources from social media.
Linkedin was famous for being slow to react to Iran's use of Linkedin, and now it is being publicly called out on Chinese doing the same kind of things. If you get the idea that Linkedin is not doing enough, I'm sure that was intended by this kind of public statement. This quote from the article says it all:
"Evanina said LinkedIn should look at copying the response of Twitter, Google and Facebook, which have all purged fake accounts allegedly linked to Iranian and Russian intelligence agencies." In other words, Linkedin didn't. By the way, I don't think any of these other social media channels did such a great job either, but they are doing better as the effort to rid ourselves of these fake accounts takes hold.
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