GhostNet

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A young woman is arrested by the Chinese government while trying to cross the border to Tibet. Her interrogator, a Chinese spy, pulls out a dossier full of information regarding her activity online. It turns out she’s been visiting pro-Tibet websites, and for that, she’s sentenced to two months in jail. What is GhostNet? Find […] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	You work for Drilla, the Chinese book asked the young Tibetan girl from Darmasala.
0:13.0	She has been arrested on the China Nepal border barely hours earlier.
0:18.0	No, liar, you come here to make trouble, the angry Chinese persisted.
0:24.0	You are Drella, online network of Tibetan people who know Chinese language.
0:29.0	You talk to innocent Chinese people to get information.
0:33.0	Spy!
0:34.0	No, I'm a student.
0:36.0	I just wanted to see Lassa, the land of my ancestors.
0:39.0	I wanted to come back, said the girl.
0:42.0	Read, said the Chinese and pushed the dossier across to her.
0:47.0	One look and the girl knew the charade was pointless.
0:51.0	The dossier contained transcripts of her chats with Chinese people over many years.
0:57.2	We watch you all the time.
0:59.6	We know who you are.
1:01.1	We know what you do. Don't ever come back to Tibet. Tell your friends
1:05.8	in Damasala too," said this book.
1:19.5	What you just heard wasn't an excerpt from a novel or a play. It comes from a Forbes India article published almost a decade ago. The Chinese interrogator was a state police official.
1:27.2	The young woman, a member of a pro-Tibetan NGO, Driller, trying to visit her family. She was not released after this encounter.
1:36.0	She would remain imprisoned for two months before being sent back from whence she came.
1:42.1	She never got to visit her family.
1:45.6	Hi, I'm Rian Levy, and welcome to malicious life.
1:49.0	This woman I just described
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