By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


China’s pre-Nvidia espionage targets: Apple, Dupont, Starwood Hotels, Motorola, Telsa, Ford, Micron, Monsanto, Boeing, etc., etc.

Not only did former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang allegedly fall for one of the oldest tricks in the espionage book, a honeypot/honey trap operation, he should have known the Chinese were targeting him and his company. After all, China has been accused of spying on all types of U.S. companies, not just tech companies. I mean, Starwood Hotels? … Wikipedia has its own China spying capers list. … I couldn’t find any major Boston-area corporate spy cases involving China. But you know it’s happening here. We have too many defense contractors and universities to resist. It’s not as if they’re just picking on California.

WWII poster above via Wikipedia’s ‘honey trapping’ entry. … Btw, it should almost go without saying it’s usually middle-aged guys who are the dumb-as-rocks ones in situations like this.

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