In China, even hackers are overcome by gloom, at a time of slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
“
With Covid, life has become too difficult
.
Many colleagues realize that they sacrificed their youth for I-Soon, but they did not earn any money and became old,”
confides, bitterly, an employee of this Shanghai cybersecurity agency, which is said to have infiltrated fourteen governments, pro-democracy organizations in Hong Kong, as well as NATO and Sciences Po Paris.
“My salary has not increased in three years.
I also want to leave,”
replies a disillusioned comrade in the sector via WeChat messaging.
This confidential exchange dating from March 3, 2022 is one of the nuggets of a computer leak offering a rare look behind the scenes of the web pirates in the pay of the communist regime.
And reveals the incestuous relationship between Beijing's security organs and a myriad of
"private"
IT companies serving as false noses for cyberattacks...
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