At the Bourget lounge, « it is clear that people come to seek intelligence » – Liberation

What could we recognize a foreign officer who was strolling on Sunday June 15 in Paris before the opening of the International Aeronautical and Space Salon in Le Bourget? At the label hung on his backpack with grade, name, first name and contact information. Enough to usurp his identity or be tempted to steal his entry badge or, better, pretend to be pulled to install a cookie on his computer and access the secret-defense network of his country. And then make sure that the Major head in the air has recovered his bag relieved of the liquid money and that, relieved to get away with it so good account, he passes the anecdote in silence.

« Pay attention to your belongings » However, is one of the mantras of the fight against spying and foreign interference, while theft of equipment is a strong increase phenomenon, including among the staff of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. Electronic devices can be sold to criminal groups who work as subcontractors for the benefit of a state or who, in an opportunistic way, put them at auction for sabotage, economic spying or subversion.

“Armament salons are the place of all threats. Exhibitors, visitors try to recover information. Spatial and aeronautics are the first aims. It is therefore in Le Bourget that we deploy our most important device, Explained General Philippe Susnjar in April