– When did you first start to think something was going wrong with Nortel? No one in Brian’s security team in America realized there was a problem until they were contacted by an employee in Britain. Without anyone realizing it, someone has gotten inside Nortel’s computer systems. At its peak Nortel employed nearly 100,000 people, and its shares made up 1/3rd of the value of the Toronto Stock Exchange. 10 years ago Brian was a technical security advisor for Nortel, a giant Canadian telecom company. So desperate is Brian Shields to tell his story in person that he’s driven hundreds of miles to meet me in Washington, D.C. Governments hemorrhaging secrets, people losing their privacy, multinationals losing billions… So, what’s been going on? Let’s deal with economic espionage first. There are now three certainties in life: there’s death, there’s taxes, and there’s a foreign intelligence service on your system.īusiness leaders, politicians and the intelligence services are all warning that the Internet is being used for espionage, sabotage, subversion, even warfare.
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