Nvidia, Jensen Huang and the history of ‘sexpionage’

By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull

A large portion of intelligence work is focused on collecting information your competitor or adversary does not want you to have. But another key focus of intelligence is on compromising key individuals.

This involves damaging reputations or putting people in a position where they might disclose sensitive information. To achieve that, intelligence agencies have often used the suggestion, promise or reality of sex.

The reemergence of interest in “sexpionage”…

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