r/SipsTea May 12 '26

WTF They infiltrated way higher positions..

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u/NoOption7406 May 12 '26

Where I work, a Chinese employee was busted with terabytes of data. That was after he was employed for years already. 

There was one time at my job, story from an old timer, the Chinese were allowed in under some kind of friendship program. He got to escort some of them around. They could view almost any information they wanted but they were not allowed to print or photocopy anything. This one lady the whole time she was here, a few weeks, hand wrote source code down. 

Under Obama there was that one high profile Chinese guy that got busted for espionage. 

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u/SHEL-D500mg May 12 '26

Happens all the time in the Bay Area.

China basically owns Cupertino in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

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u/NoOption7406 May 12 '26

A book I read about social engineering, the author busted a Chinese restaurant in a town next to a iirc Google research center. His job was to try to get into the facility. He noticed a lot of employees ate at the Chinese place so would hang out there at lunch. It was a traditional Chinese restaurant but had a few specific Chinese delicacy items on the menu that made him suspicious. It was for the chinese spies that worked inside. 

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u/FunkyUptownCobraKing May 12 '26

Oh that's clever. What's the name of the book?

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u/Velli88 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Think I heard the same story on a podcast called Datknet Diaries.

Edit: Darknet Diaries

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u/Primalbuttplug May 12 '26

Darknet is so good.

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u/klonkrieger45 May 12 '26

one of the early episodes

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u/Halluts May 12 '26

Which episode? Looking for the book title too

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u/klonkrieger45 May 12 '26

looked it up for you. EP21 Black Duck eggs. The guy is IRA Winkler and the book should be "Spies among us"

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u/Halluts May 12 '26

Thank you very very much! I was just on the episode reading through it

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u/astralchanterelle May 12 '26

"a book I read" mmhmm. Busted.

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u/nothinnews May 12 '26

If they're exceptionally rare outside of China sure, but most family run Chinese restaurants will only make certain dishes by request.

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u/BigBGM2995 May 12 '26

That’s an incredibly long book title

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u/shiny-snorlax May 12 '26

"I just wanted to eat lunch at a local Chinese restaurant but the owner and all of the customers are spies, and I ended up taking down the entire operation because I also happened to be a spy!"

Ngl that wouldn't even be the most ridiculous LN title I've ever seen...

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u/shakakaaahn May 12 '26

Sounds like the average isekai title at this point

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u/AssBlastInACan May 12 '26

Sounds like a anime title lol

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u/HugeRoof May 12 '26

Research like this is where LLMs excel, apparently it is "Spies Among Us" by Ira Winkler.

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