(Beijing Comprehensive News) The Ministry of Security of China issued a statement that some overseas institutions use free provision of equipment and shared aviation information as bait, recruit "volunteers" in China to illegally collect Chinese aircraft flight data.
Chinese Ministry of Security Saturday (January 6)Its public account published an article that exposed the opportunity to find an active aviation enthusiast on the Chinese online social platform, and advertised through information and emails to freely provide equipment and share aviation information as a bait to carry out recruitment.
The article pointed out that for the newly joined volunteers, > It will send a portable signal receiving device close to the smartphone, and the long -range guidance volunteers are put on the China aviation hub.
Articles posted such signal receiving equipment pictures, saying that these devices have strong performance, support online remote programming, built -in GPS chips, can locate the specified aircraft, and automatically collect aircraft models, flight heights, latitude and longitude, degree of latitude, latitude and longitude, and longitude, latitude and longitude, and latitude and longitude.Direction and other information, and through encrypted transmission, the data is transmitted to the outside world in real time.
The article states that overseas institutions put a large number of such equipment in the provinces around the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, not only stealing civil aviation data, but also sensitive data such as military aircraft.
Articles calculate that only about 300 such devices are required to monitor aircraft signals in the national airspace.When a large number of such equipment work, signal interference will also be caused to China ’s civil aviation air pipe system and military air pipe system, which pose a major threat to China’ s aviation security.
The article states that the Guoan organs have launched a special blow, seized hundreds of equipment that has been put in China, and punished relevant personnel according to law.
CCTV News reported in 2021 that the Ministry of National Security of China found that overseas institutions recruited volunteers to collect aviation data in 2020.In the same year, the American Voice reported that Flightradar24 was removed from the shelves in China because the company provided members with signal tracking equipment, suspected of transporting important aviation data to the outside world, involving "spy behavior".
