China’s intelligence system integrates satellite arrays (Remote Sensing No. 40 can capture the movement of 0.5-meter objects within 300 square kilometers), the National Data Network (18 abnormal military orders on Double Eleven triggered 23 analysis models) and industrial countermeasures (37-second power fluctuations in a factory in Suzhou exposed chip backdoor programs), and realizes three-dimensional prevention and control through fishing enforcement, equipment transformation and community grids.
Technical reconnaissance system
Last year, the R&D center of a multinational auto company suddenly lost the Internet for 37 minutes. Later, it was found that the monitoring module was implanted in the controller of the rooftop fresh air system. This physical layer penetration is just the tip of the iceberg. China’s intelligence technology has long stopped relying on those gadgets in 007 movies. Now it is a digital hunting that integrates the sky and the earth, and everything from space to submarine cables is under monitoring.
The satellite array is much smarter than you think. The Remote Sensing No. 40 launched last year can simultaneously capture the movement trajectory of objects 0.5 meters in size within 300 square kilometers. After these satellites are networked, they form a dynamic monitoring sandbox. With the help of ground base stations, even the slight displacement of containers on the deck of a cargo ship can be calculated. Last year, a batch of precision instruments declared as auto parts at Qingdao Port were caught by this millimeter-level recognition technology.
The operation of submarine cable monitoring stations is more covert. A technician at a base in Hainan talked to me about the quantum key cracking equipment they used, which can complete the password analysis in 0.3 seconds, which would take a traditional computer 100,000 years to solve. Last year, the encrypted communication of a certain country’s embassy was deciphered, relying on the real-time packet capture of this system at the South China Sea relay station. Now even the vibration frequency analysis of submarine optical cables can determine the type of data transmission, just like Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis.
The Skynet project in the city is even more terrifying after the upgrade. The intelligent recognition system installed by the Shenzhen Longgang Branch last year can compare millions of faces in 0.8 seconds. During a pursuit operation, the suspect changed three sets of clothes and hid in the mall, but was locked by gait recognition – this system even remembers the amplitude of your shoulder shaking when you walk. Now even the front desk registration system of small hotels in urban villages is connected to the public security database, and more than 20 dimensions of risk assessment are completed at the moment of swiping your ID card.
Enterprise-level protection cannot prevent this kind of three-dimensional reconnaissance. Last year, in the laboratory of a new energy vehicle company, the smart trash cans used by cleaners were quietly collecting scraps of paper. These devices are networked separately through 5G slicing technology, and the data is directly transmitted to the analysis center 30 kilometers away. What’s more amazing is the harmonic analysis of the power supply system, which can infer the operating parameters of precision instruments through current fluctuations. This trick has caught foreign technology theft in Suzhou Industrial Park.
Informant Network
Last month, on the assembly line of an electronics factory in Dongguan, operator Lao Li was suddenly promoted to deputy director of the workshop. This matter seemed normal, until the national security took away the technician Xiao Wang at the next station, everyone realized that the production line log that Lao Li had kept every day for the past three years was actually a record of abnormal equipment parameters. This kind of hidden stake buried deep in the production process is much more real than commercial espionage movies.
There is a lot of knowledge hidden in the personnel arrangements of the state-owned enterprise system. In the overseas project department of a central enterprise, the new French translator is actually a master of international relations. When recruiting for these positions, they pay special attention to “clean family background”, which is actually training long-term latent personnel. Last year, when bidding for a power transmission station project in a certain African country, it relied on this kind of “translation” to get the bid of the opponent three months in advance.
Academic exchanges in colleges and universities are even more of a gold mine of intelligence. The visiting scholar system of a key laboratory in Beijing is ostensibly to promote scientific research cooperation, but secretly to screen potential development targets. Last year, a Chinese-American professor said “There are loopholes in your data model” at a drinking party, and was turned over three months later. The key is not how much money he was given, but to catch the handle of his paper fraud ten years ago.
The development of informants in the business world is even more interesting. A private boss in Zhejiang received a tax audit notice the next day after attending a meeting of the Federation of Industry and Commerce. This kind of precision strike is often accompanied by the opportunity to “make friends”. Later, he became an intelligence node in a certain industrial park, with a special corporate WeChat installed on his mobile phone. On the surface, it seems to be an ordinary chat, but in fact it uses homophonic characters to transmit information.
The most amazing thing is the development of overseas personnel. A driver at a certain foreign correspondent station usually likes to take some street scenes and post them on WeChat Moments. From the photos of traffic jams he took, national security personnel analyzed the security guard rotation pattern of a certain country’s parliament building. This kind of non-traditional informant himself does not know that he is providing intelligence, and the way he receives money is even more covert – his hometown suddenly has a “precision poverty alleviation” breeding project subsidy.
The spies in religious groups and NGOs are pervasive. The China director of a certain environmental protection organization always brings a specific brand of mineral water for field surveys. Later, it was discovered that the nano-coating in the bottle cap can record the electromagnetic environment along the way, and these data can be transmitted back to the country to infer the location of military facilities. Even the top leaders of the organization were kept in the dark about this operation, and they thought it was just ordinary geographical surveying.
Game of Diplomatic Occasions
During the G20 summit last year, the station of a certain country’s delegation suddenly lost the Internet for 12 minutes. Afterwards, it was found that the Chinese technicians implanted a monitoring module when “repairing the router”. This kind of intelligence attack and defense in diplomatic occasions requires a sense of proportion more than spy war dramas. It is necessary to get the things, but not to tear the face.
The cover function of embassies and consulates abroad is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The agricultural counselor of a certain embassy in Africa has hybrid rice specimens piled up in his office all year round, but the computer runs satellite map analysis software. These diplomats have a double task list, discussing cooperation agreements on the surface and recording building structure data secretly. Last year, the expansion project of a certain country’s presidential palace was a projector company that obtained concrete mix parameters through the embassy.
International conferences are the real information gold mine. At last year’s climate summit, the accompanying translator of the Chinese delegation wore special glasses, and the temples could capture lip movements within 15 meters. The best thing about this equipment is that it can filter out background noise and accurately extract the target conversation in the noisy environment of a cocktail party. Once, a German representative complained about the internal conflicts of the European Union at the buffet table, and two hours later, the key points of the conversation appeared on the projection screen of a conference room in Beijing.
The gray area of diplomatic immunity has been played out. The trunk of the special car of a South American ambassador is filled with “cultural exchange materials” every time it passes through customs, but it is actually equipped with signal repeaters. These devices use the electromagnetic shielding characteristics of the embassy area to enhance and forward communication signals within a radius of three kilometers. Last year, the encrypted conversation of an opposition leader in a certain country was deciphered in this way.
The competition in informal occasions is more skillful. During a tea break at a China-US business forum, a Chinese entrepreneur “accidentally” forgot his mobile phone next to the seat of the US CEO. This modified Huawei phone can automatically sniff the MAC addresses of surrounding electronic devices. Three days later, these devices appeared in the WiFi connection records of a hotel in San Francisco, directly locking the itinerary of the US negotiating team.
Open source intelligence for all
Last month, when a travel blogger was shooting a vlog in Qinghai, half of a radar station flashed in the background, and the video was removed from the entire network that day. The content taken by ordinary people is becoming a rich mine of intelligence. Now even the dashcam data of food delivery riders is included in the collection scope.
Information mining on social media has been industrialized. There is a team that specializes in watching the posts of military enthusiasts on the Internet. Last year, a Japanese netizen posted a photo of the Self-Defense Force base. The account “asking for specific coordinates” in the comment area was actually an AI crawler. These systems can calculate the shooting time by the length of the shadow, and infer the geographical location by combining the satellite cloud map, with an error of no more than 300 meters.
Enterprises’ overseas projects have become natural intelligence networks. When a home appliance company built a factory in Vietnam, the soil test data reported by the engineering team every day was simultaneously transmitted to the domestic geological research institute. These seemingly ordinary foundation bearing parameters can calculate the crustal activity patterns along the South China Sea coast. What’s more amazing is that the IoT sensors in the packaging boxes have penetrated into various places along the product distribution network.
University scientific research cooperation hides information harvesters. A Sino-foreign joint laboratory requires all experimental data to be uploaded to the cloud, ostensibly for “facilitating academic exchanges”, but in fact it is capturing raw data. The control group parameters in a nanomaterial paper last year appeared in the research and development report of a domestic military enterprise three months later. This operation did not even notice the abnormality of the foreign professors who cooperated.
Ordinary people are also inadvertently acting as intelligence agents. In the product evaluation area of a cross-border e-commerce platform, someone specializes in purchasing pictures with geographical tags. Last year, by analyzing the supermarket shelf photos uploaded by Indonesian buyers, the supply of non-staple food at a naval base of a certain country was successfully calculated. Even the TikTok videos shot by square dance aunties are inadvertently recording the changes in the flow of people in key areas.
The tour group has become a mobile reconnaissance team. A western travel agency will specially reward tourists who shoot “scenery blockbusters”. After these 4K videos are handed over to AI for analysis, 87 parameters such as vegetation coverage changes and road construction progress can be extracted. Last year, the expansion intelligence of a border highway was inferred from the videos of the collapsed road section shot by tourists, which was discovered two weeks earlier than satellite images.
Counter-espionage Operation
Last month, when Lao Zhang, a security guard at a chip factory in Shenzhen, was on night shift, he found that the air conditioner outdoor unit of the R&D building was vibrating abnormally. When he opened it, he found a palm-sized signal repeater embedded inside. This industrial-grade spy equipment can disguise itself as environmental noise and transmit experimental data mixed with air conditioner operating parameters. The National Security Bureau later followed the clues and caught the “foreign company engineer” who received the signal in a cafe five kilometers away.
The internal fishing enforcement of the enterprise is very good. A new energy vehicle factory deliberately “leaked” defective battery parameters in the test workshop, and three days later, the same data released by an overseas company was seen on the dark web. When the national security personnel disguised themselves as buyers, they directly arrested the technical director of the R&D department. The most ruthless thing about this trap is that it uses real data as bait, and even the four decimal places can withstand scrutiny.
Civilian equipment modification is the ultimate weapon against espionage. The noise-proof headset used by the crane driver at Qingdao Port has a built-in voiceprint recognition module that can capture sensitive words within 20 meters. Once, a conversation about “silicon wafer yield” appeared in the monitoring record, directly locking in two foreign intelligence agents disguised as logistics companies. These devices are not abnormal at all in daily life, and even the charging interface is no different from ordinary headphones.
Community grid management hides mysteries. The scanning port of the newly installed smart garbage sorting box in a community in Beijing is actually a face recognition terminal. A fugitive spy was photographed throwing a takeaway box. The system compared his gait characteristics with his entry record seven years ago and directly triggered an alarm. When the property management came to collect the property management fee, four plainclothes officers had already blocked the stairwell.
The cover-up routines of overseas NGOs have been figured out. The air quality monitor in the China office of an environmental protection organization, the background program is secretly crawling the data of surrounding base stations. The countermeasures of the National Security Bureau are even more extreme – they replaced them with a modified device with a backdoor, and the false data sent back caused the other party to misjudge the deployment location of our missiles.
Big data early warning system
During the Double Eleven last year, an e-commerce platform found 18 abnormal orders: the same military-grade bearing was purchased by different accounts, but the delivery address was pointed to a university family building. The big data system instantly triggered 23 association analysis models, digging out the overseas technology theft chain disguised as academic procurement.
Transportation card data can dig out spy networks. The Shanghai Metro ticketing system screened out 37 abnormal commuter cards, which were always activated at stations near military units, but the holder information was all fake. Tracking consumption records found that they regularly bought imported mineral water in chain supermarkets, and the RFID tags on the bottles were deciphered to reveal encrypted instructions.
Medical data warnings are more sensitive than expected. The orthopedics department of a tertiary hospital found 23 similar cases: all the patients were from abroad and claimed to be injured while skiing. The actual injuries shown in the X-rays deviated from the skiing injury probability model by 79%. It was later confirmed that these people were agents of a certain country’s intelligence agency, and the combat injuries caused during training were detected by AI.
Express logistics data hides fatal clues. AI at a courier sorting station in Hangzhou found that the weight of 12 “agricultural machinery parts” sent to the northwest was abnormal, and surveying and mapping equipment with remote sensing functions were found after unpacking. The sender information of these packages was all stolen, but the payment account was linked to the IP address of a foreign foundation, and three intelligence teams were wiped out in one go.
Enterprise electricity consumption data can be used as intelligence. Monitoring at Suzhou Industrial Park found that the power consumption mode of a certain electronics factory was abnormal at night, and there was always a 37-second power fluctuation at three o’clock in the morning. The National Security Bureau brought a spectrum analyzer to conduct a surprise inspection and found that they were using special equipment to burn backdoor programs into chips. The power consumption characteristics were completely consistent with the violation records of a certain Taiwanese wafer factory two years ago.
The most exciting case of data counterattack on the food delivery platform. Records from a rider app in a shopping district in Chongqing showed that a user placed an order from the same milk tea shop every Wednesday, and the delivery address was 200 meters different each time. The geo-fence system drew a trajectory map that just covered the three entrances and exits of a confidential research institute. When the arrest was made, it was found that the consignee was a reconnaissance expert disguised as a takeaway driver.
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