State of Thursday: DEAR NERDS, ABOUT THAT HOT RUSSIAN WOMAN
She’s not actually into you. She only wants you for your algorithm.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
We’re going to keep today’s short and sweet and … hot?
I’ve got some meetings this morning and I’m up earlier than God to write you this little note.
Let’s talk about Chinese and Russian women.
DEAR NERDS, ABOUT THAT HOT RUSSIAN WOMAN
For whatever reason, perhaps it was image maintenance, word started spreading around about a little more than a decade ago that honeytraps don’t work. A “honeytrap” is when intelligence services use an attractive woman to exploit a target.
The exploit could just be bug placement, stolen documents, basic information and so on. It could also be a long con. It’s very frequently said to use sex as a tool.
“Americans don’t use honeytraps because they really don’t work,” was the thought bubbling up in intelligence circles.
It couldn’t possibly be because it’s immoral, right, guys? Or that it might incentivize another kind of slavery? The U.S. government is still trying to slough off the bad vibes from its last dance with slavery.
With all this said, Russians and Chinese decidedly do not care, at least according to one private intelligence officer.
From the Times of London, quote:
James Mulvenon, the chief intelligence officer of Pamir Consulting, which provides risk assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was one of the many men recently targeted by foreign seductresses hoping to gain access to US tech secrets. “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” said Mulvenon. “It really seems to have ramped up recently.”
Mulvenon also described how, at a business conference on Chinese investment risks hosted last week in Virginia, two attractive Chinese women showed up and attempted to gain entry. “We didn’t let them in,” he said. “But they had all the information [about the event] and everything else.”
He added: “It is a phenomenon. And I will tell you: it is weird.”
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China tried to hit ol’ James here with the double whammy! The ol’ ménage à chop! It’s not just typical one-night stands, either. For some of these ladies, it’s not a case of wham, bam, thank ya ma’am.
From the Times, quote:
One former counterintelligence official, who now helps Silicon Valley founders divest their foreign investments, said he recently investigated the case of one “beautiful” Russian woman who worked at an aerospace company and married an American colleague. He discovered that she had gone to a modelling academy in her twenties but later attended a “Russian soft-power school” before disappearing for a decade and re-emerging in the US as a cryptocurrency expert.
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Good lord, is that some serious dedication. I would almost call her marriage material in any other context.
At this point I think even without this new report, we’ve always known a couple things.
One is that honeytraps definitely work. Especially on nerds. Tech nerds, government nerds working boring government jobs, accountants, you get it.
Two is that our adversaries are particularly nasty and free in ways we might not be.
From the Times, quote:
Both Russia and the CCP are using ordinary citizens … to target their American counterparts, rather than trained agents, making the espionage harder to spot. “We’re not chasing a KGB agent in a smoky guesthouse in Germany anymore,” said one senior US counterintelligence official. “Our adversaries — particularly the Chinese — are using a whole-of-society approach to exploit all aspects of our technology and Western talent.”
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Particularly the Chinese, eh?
Imagine being a young female foreign student at Caltech and you get an encrypted call. On the other line is a member of Chinese intelligence; he has a task for you. When he’s done explaining who the target is and what your expectations are (have sex with them, marry them even if you must), he reminds you of where your most beloved family members live.
This is not just some far-out notion, that’s literally what “whole-of-society” means to the Chinese government. We’ll turn you into a nerd’s sex slave at any given moment if it will benefit the CCP.
On our end, what can we really do?
For the love of God, boys, the hard-10 Russian woman, the Chinese woman who looks like a demigod?
She’s not actually into you. She only wants you for your algorithm.
WHAT I’M READING
The freak also eats rice with his hands.
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I’ll take the call to prayer over Mehdi Hasan in my neighborhood.
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C’mon.
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