French Hacker Legion is west's foremost snoop squad says Robert Gates

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/30/france_a_cyberespionage_threat_says_robert_gates/

By Richard Chirgwin
The Register
30 May 2014

Former spook and defense department secretary Robert Gates has identified 
France as a major cyber-spying threat against the US.

In statements that are bound to raise eyebrows on both sides of the 
Atlantic, Gates (not Bill) nominated French spies as being number two in 
the world of industrial cyber-espionage.

“In terms of the most capable, next to the Chinese, are the French – and 
they've been doing it a long time” he says in this interview at the 
Council on Foreign Relations.

Rather than a precis, The Register will give you some of Gates's (not 
Bill) words verbatim, starting just after 21 minutes in the video, when he 
answers a question about America's recent indictment of five Chinese 
military hackers.

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