“Every LifeEmberz employee, including Zhu, now uses a device that’s issued by the Chinese government. Why did we need an operative on the ground to hack into a phone?” “Blake, I think Claire’s question is a reasonable one. Speers scratched his salt-and-pepper goatee. It was as much about psychology and relationships as it was technology. Nobody understood that espionage was still a high-touch business. Any operation that required an actual human on the ground was automatically questioned, and anything that could be handled via remote control from a secret government facility in the states was automatically applauded. For that matter, why didn’t they just take him out with a drone strike? He was so tired of questions like this. “Why didn’t we just hack in and plant the malware remotely?” “So when we heard that LifeEmberz was going on the lecture circuit, we decided to use the opportunity to get close to him.” “But it’s been difficult to get to Zhu,” Carver said. Go ahead and laugh, but I know people here in Washington who have discussed it with a straight face.”
“As in Attack of the Clones?” she said, referencing the Star Wars storyline. And we think another involves cloning, uh, supersoldiers.” We fear at least one might be a bioweapon.
“We think the Chinese government commissioned LifeEmberz to work on military programs.
“But from a security standpoint, I still don’t know why we care about this guy.”Ĭarver dropped his laser pointer. “Impressive,” Shipmont remarked without enthusiasm.
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