http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/business/07shelf.html By DEVIN LEONARD Off the Shelf The New York Times March 5, 2010 IT'S easy to understand how Washington reporters can become jaded. They are constantly being spun by the same gang of politicians and lobbyists who dominate the nation's capital. So, by his own admission, Eamon Javers, a veteran Washington correspondent who now covers the White House for Politico, was thrilled when he stumbled on a new cast of characters in the area: former spies who peddle their services to large companies. The result is "Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage" (Harper Business, 306 pages) [1], Mr. Javers's account of how he doggedly tracked down rent-a-spies in United States and Europe and tried to get them to divulge their mysteries. The author obtained quite a few meetings with former C.I.A., MI5 and K.G.B. agents who comb through trash and snoop on people using satellite technology, on behalf of the private sector. He says their business is booming, although he isn't sure if this is good for the world. Mr. Javers warns, "In an increasingly fragmented geopolitical environment, the balance seems to be shifting away from governments and toward corporate and even private individuals, who have access to more intelligence and information-gathering abilities than many governments in history ever had." [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061697206/c4iorg [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Mar 07 2010 - 22:42:59 PST
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